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Chronic-graft-versus-host-disease-related polymyositis: a 17-months-old child with a rare and late complication of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background: Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) occurs in 20-30% of paediatric patients receiving haemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Neuromuscular disorders such as polymyositis are considered a rare and distinctive but non-diagnostic ...
Matteo Chinello, Rita Balter, Massimiliano De Bortoli, Virginia Vitale, Ada Zaccaron, Elisa Bonetti, Paola Tonin, Gaetano Vattemi, Valeria Guglielmi, Simone Cesaro   +9 more
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Case report: Systemic muscle involvement as the primary clinical manifestation of chronic active Epstein–Barr virus infection: A case-based review

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.
Shanfen Shi, Liangda Li, Cuiping Pan, Yandi Yang, Gun Chen, Yongping He   +5 more
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Spontaneous Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage in a Mediastinal Tumor in a Patient With Polymyositis: A Case Report

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2008
Spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage is a lethal cause of acute abdomen that is most frequently related to drugs, coagulopathy and intra-abdominal tumors.
Tzu-Jung Fang, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Ming-Chen Shih, Cheng-Yuan Wang, Ling-I Chen, Yi-Chun Tsai, Yu-Chih Lin   +6 more
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Profiling of Myositis Specific Antibodies and Composite Scores as an Aid in the Differential Diagnosis of Autoimmune Myopathies

Diagnostics, 2021
(1) Background: Myositis specific antibodies (MSA) represent important diagnostic and stratification tools in idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) patients.
Michael Mahler, Kishore Malyavantham, Andrea Seaman, Chelsea Bentow, Ariadna Anunciacion-Llunell, María Teresa Sanz-Martínez, Laura Viñas-Gimenez, Albert Selva-O’Callaghan   +7 more
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Severe Rhabdomyolysis without Systemic Involvement: A Rare Case of Idiopathic Eosinophilic Polymyositis

Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2015
Introduction. Eosinophilic polymyositis (EPM) is a rare cause of rhabdomyolysis characterized by eosinophilic infiltrates in the muscle. We describe the case of a young patient with eosinophilic polymyositis causing isolated severe rhabdomyolysis without
Ayesha Farooq, Vivek Choksi, Andrew Chu, Dhruti Mankodi, Sameer Shaharyar, Keith O’Brien, Uday Shankar   +6 more
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Myositis-specific and myositis-associated autoantibody profiles and their clinical associations in a large series of patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis

Clinics, 2013
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence of myositis-specific and myositis-associated autoantibodies and their clinical correlations in a large series of patients with dermatomyositis/polymyositis.
Marcela Gran Pina Cruellas, Vilma dos Santos Trindade Viana, Maurício Levy-Neto, Fernando Henrique Carlos de Souza, Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo   +4 more
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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.
Agnieszka Trybuch, Beata Tarnacka
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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.
Sineta Cristina Firulescu, Paulina Lucia Ciurea, Cristina Dorina Parvanescu, Beatrice Andreea Chisalau, Andreea Lili Barbulescu, Cristina Criveanu, Adina Turcu-Stiolica, Roxana Edmee Mustafa, Florentin Ananu Vreju   +8 more
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Atypical Presentation of Antisynthetase Syndrome: A Case Report

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023
Antisynthetase syndrome is characterized by autoantibodies against one of many aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetases. The clinical features include interstitial lung disease (ILD), non-erosive arthritis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, myositis, unexplained fever ...
Shalesh Rohatgi, Prajwal Rao, Satish Nirhale, Pravin Naphade   +3 more
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Marked Long‐term Improvement in Lung Function in Melanoma Differentiation‐associated Protein 5 (MDA5) Antibody Positive Dermatomyositis Patients: Experience of a Single Center Longitudinal Cohort in North America

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective The objective of this study was to describe the longitudinal disease course and pulmonary outcomes of North American patients with melanoma differentiation‐associated gene 5 antibody (MDA5 ab) associated dermatomyositis (DM). Methods Thirty patients with MDA5 ab DM were identified in a single center longitudinal cohort of 352 patients with ...
Jenice X Cheah, Sangmee S Bae, Tiffany De Leon, Yuna Lee, Rong Guo, David Elashoff, Jennifer Wang, Ani Shahbazian, Christina Charles‐Schoeman   +8 more
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