Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2023 How to cite this article: Bansal T. Is It Polymyositis? Indian J Crit Care Med 2023;27(9):690-691.
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Autoimmune disorders are an important cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We report a case of a patient with steroid‐responsive ARDS that relapsed in 10 months with an initial manifestation of seronegative polymyositis.
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A recipe for myositis : nuclear factor κB and nuclear factor of activated T-cells transcription factor pathways spiced up by cytokines [PDF]
, 2017 Nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) is a well-known pro-inflammatory transcription factor that regulates the expression of the tissue’s immune-active components, which include cytokines, chemokines and adhesion molecules.
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Chronic active Epstein–Barr virus infection (CAEBV) is common in Asian countries and characterized by recurrent or persistent infectious mononucleosis-like symptoms.
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Predictors of survival in a cohort of patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis: effect of corticosteroids, methotrexate and azathioprine [PDF]
, 2012 Introduction: The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are rare diseases for which data regarding the natural history, response to therapies and factors affecting mortality are needed.
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COULD ANTI-SYNTHETASE SYNDROME BE A GOOD PREDICTOR FACTOR FOR INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE? [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Rheumatology, 2017 Anti-synthetase syndrome (SAS) is an autoimmune inflammatory myopathy, whose immune profile is dominated by anti-RNA synthetase antibodies (ARS), with a specific clinical phenotype.
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A national registry for juvenile dermatomyositis and other paediatric idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: 10 years' experience; the Juvenile Dermatomyositis National (UK and Ireland) Cohort Biomarker Study and Repository for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies [PDF]
, 2011 Objectives: The paediatric idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a group of rare chronic inflammatory disorders of childhood, affecting muscle, skin and other organs.
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Cardiac involvement in polymyositis and dermatomyositis: diagnostic approaches.
Rheumatology, 2023 Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Myocardial involvement in patients with IIM is an unfavorable prognostic factor and one of the most common cause of mortality in this group of patients.
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Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases-2 and-9 and their tissue inhibitors in inflammatory neuromuscular disorders [PDF]
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