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Baseline peripheral blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio could predict survival in patients with adult polymyositis and dermatomyositis: A retrospective observational study

PLoS ONE, 2018
Recent studies have suggested that neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio (CAR) are emerging markers of disease activity and prognosis in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, or ...
Y. Ha, Jaehyung Hur, D. J. Go, E. Kang, J. Park, E. Lee, K. Shin, Eun-Bong Lee, Y. Song, Y. Lee   +9 more
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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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The predictive prognostic factors for polymyositis/dermatomyositis-associated interstitial lung disease

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2018
BackgroundInterstitial lung disease (ILD) is the principal cause of death in polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM). Here we investigated prognostic factors for death and serious infection in PM/DM-ILD using the multicenter database.MethodsWe ...
Y. Sugiyama, R. Yoshimi, M. Tamura, M. Takeno, Y. Kunishita, D. Kishimoto, Y. Yoshioka, K. Kobayashi, Kaoru Takase-Minegishi, Toshiyuki Watanabe, N. Hamada, H. Nagai, N. Tsuchida, Y. Soejima, H. Nakano, R. Kamiyama, T. Uehara, Y. Kirino, A. Sekiguchi, A. Ihata, S. Ohno, S. Nagaoka, H. Nakajima   +22 more
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High-Dose Subcutaneous Immunoglobulins for the Treatment of Severe Treatment-Resistant Polymyositis

Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2014
Polymyositis is a rare debilitating condition characterized by chronic inflammation and muscle weakness. Standard treatments include corticosteroids and immunosuppressants; however, resistance to these regimens may develop.
Cherin Patrick, Delain Jean-Christophe, Crave Jean-Charles, Cartry Odile   +3 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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Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Lung Disease in Adult Patients With Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
Objective: This study aimed at clarifying the prevalence, risk factors, outcome, and outcome-related factors of acute exacerbation of interstitial lung disease (AE-ILD) in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM).Methods: Data of IIM patients
Junyu Liang, Heng Cao, Yini Ke, Chuanyin Sun, Weiqian Chen, Jin Lin   +5 more
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Myasthenic crisis and polymyositis induced by one dose of nivolumab

Cancer Science, 2016
An 80‐year‐old man, who developed multiple lymph node and skin metastasis of malignant melanoma, received nivolumab monotherapy. Two weeks after the first dose, he experienced anorexia and fatigue, and suffered from progressive, severe dyspnea and muscle
T. Kimura, S. Fukushima, A. Miyashita, J. Aoi, M. Jinnin, T. Kosaka, Y. Ando, M. Matsukawa, H. Inoue, K. Kiyotani, Jae-Hyun Park, Yusuke Nakamura, H. Ihn   +12 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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