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POLYMYOSITIS FOLLOWING LEPTOSPIROSIS INFECTION: A CASE REPORT

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Leptospirosis is a zoonosis transmitted by Leptospira, known for its immunomodulatory activity capable of stimulating immune activation and triggering autoimmune diseases, including polymyositis.
Bruna Kochhann Menezes, Amanda Sabrina Severgnini, Eduardo Cogo Motter, Larissa Pasqualotto Scopel, Natália Cousseau Grazziotin   +4 more
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Prevalência de manifestações clínico-laboratoriais e comorbidades na polimiosite segundo o gênero Prevalence of clinical and laboratory manifestations and comorbidities in polymyositis according to gender

Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2011
OBJETIVO: Analisar a distribuição e a influência do gênero na polimiosite (PM), quanto às manifestações clínico-laboratoriais, evolução e comorbidades. MÉTODOS: Estudo de coorte retrospectivo, unicêntrico, em que foram avaliados 75 pacientes consecutivos
Fernando Henrique Carlos de Souza, Maurício Levy-Neto, Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo   +2 more
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Overflow proteinuria as a manifestation of unrecognized polymyositis

International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2014
Hyun Ho Kim,1 Jae Young Kim,1 Sung Jun Kim,1,2 Eun Su Park,3 Seok Joon Shin,1,2 Kwi Young Kang,1,4 Yeon Sik Hong,1,4 Hye Eun Yoon1,21Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 2Division of Nephrology ...
Kim HH, Kim JY, Kim SJ, Park ES, Shin SJ, Kang KY, Hong YS, Yoon HE   +7 more
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Coexistência de hipotiroidismo e polimiosite Coexistence of hypothyroidism and polymyositis

Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2003
Pacientes com hipotiroidismo freqüentemente apresentam sintomas músculo-esqueléticos e aumento de enzimas musculares, como a creatinaquinase (CK).
Maize Fernanda Bonim Singh, Sandra Regina M. Fernandes, Lilian Tereza Lavras Costallat, Manoel Barros Bértolo, Luciano de Souza Queiroz, Adil Muhib Samara   +5 more
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Associations between selected immune-mediated diseases and tuberculosis: record-linkage studies.

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that there may be an association between some immune-mediated diseases and risk of tuberculosis (TB). METHODS: We analyzed a database of linked statistical records of hospital admissions and death certificates ...
Michael J Goldacre, Goldacre, R, Sreeram V Ramagopalan, Conlon, C, Raph Goldacre, Andrew Skingsley, Ramagopalan, SV, Skingsley, A, Goldacre, MJ, Goldacre, Michael, Chris Conlon   +10 more
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Prolonged refractory dysphagia in polymyositis

, 2015
Herein, we report a patient with polymyositis (biopsy proved) with dysphagia that did not improve with conventional treatment. An upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy showed esophageal stricture and a biopsy taken from the site revealed evidence of ...
Thomas Mathew, Raghunandan Nadig, G R K Sarma, Mohan Muvvala   +3 more
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[Anti TNF-alpha treatment of a refractory polymyositis]

, 2007
National audienceINTRODUCTION: Anti TNF-alpha agents may represent a possibility of treatment in cases of refractory polymyositis. CASE REPORT: We report a case of polymyositis refractory to corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents in whom adjunction
Prati, C., Ornetti, P., Streit, G., Toussirot, E., Wendling, D.   +4 more
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Polymyositis - an unusual manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease

, 2001
Polymyositis is a rare autoimmune manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) characterized by muscle pain, weakness, and an increase in muscle-related enzymes that responds well to treatment with immunosuppressive agents such as steroids ...
George, Biju, Danda, Debashis, Chandy, Mammen, Mathews, Vikram, Srivastava, Alok   +4 more
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Hypothyroidism simulating polymyositis. Report of two cases

, 1988
To report two cases of hypothyroidism simulating ...
Rossi, F, Macchioni, P, Ghirelli, L, Baricchi, R, Portioli, I., SALVARANI, CARLO, Marcello, N, Guidetti, D, Iori, I   +8 more
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Polymyositis/Dermatomyositis: the current position

, 1991
Polymyositis/dermatomyositis are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterised by skeletal muscle inflammation and necrosis.' 2 Since an excellent clinical description in 1903 by Steiner of dermatomyositis, which is essentially still valid,3 much ...
Grau Junyent, Josep M. (Josep Maria), Urbano Márquez, A. (Álvaro), Casademont i Pou, Jordi   +2 more
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