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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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Molecular mechanisms in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Myositis is a group of rare autoimmune diseases. Muscle weakness and fatigue are the dominant symptoms and inflammation with T cells and macrophages is a characteristic finding in muscle tissue.
Zong, Mei
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Endoscopy is of low yield in the identification of gastrointestinal neoplasia in patients with dermatomyositis: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]

, 2017
AimTo determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal neoplasia among dermatomyositis patients who underwent an esophagogastroduodenoscopy and/or colonoscopy.MethodsA cross-sectional study examining the results of upper endoscopy and colonoscopy in adults ...
Gross, Andrew J, Kidambi, Trilokesh D, Lee, Jeffrey K, Ostroff, James W, Schmajuk, Gabriela, Terdiman, Jonathan P   +5 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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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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Cardiac involvement in adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies [PDF]

, 2016
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) include the main subgroups polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), inclusion body myositis (IBM) and juvenile DM (JDM).
Diederichsen, L. P., Lundberg, Ingrid E., Sanner, Helga, Schwartz, TThomas W, Sjaastad, Ivar   +4 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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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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[Polymyositis-dermatomyositis recognized during the follow-up of a patient with type 2 diabetes]. [PDF]

, 2012
Polymyositis-dermatomyositis is a rare systemic autoimmune disease which belongs to the class of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The disease exhibits high inter-individual variability, but chronic myositis is a common feature.
Csóka, Mária, Dankó, Katalin, Samer F,   +2 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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