Inflammatory myopathy
Malignancies in Korean Patients with Inflammatory Myopathy
... The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and the common type of malignancies in Korean patients with poly- myositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) and to evaluate the differences of clinical and laboratory ...
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Inflammatory myopathy, bronchiolitis obliterans/organizing pneumonia, and anti-Jo-1 antibodies--an interesting association.
... Of particular relevance to this case report is the respiratory involvement in inflammatory myopathy (12, 18). Prominent dyspnea occurs in a minority of cases of suspected PM or DM (PM/DM) cases due to a ...
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Original Article Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with inflammatory myopathy
... showed inflammatory changes ...the inflammatory response? Though in experimental animals, mtDNA changes can increase susceptibility to immune syndromes that arise spontaneously, including collagen induced ...
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Ultrastructural Aspects of Apoptosis in Systemic Sclerosis Inflammatory Myopathy
... and inflammatory myopathies associated with rheumatic diseases, it has not yet been described apoptosis in skeletal mus- cle fibers [9] [10] ...SS inflammatory myopathy which coexists with the ...
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Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B masquerading as inflammatory myopathy: case report
... an inflammatory myopathy is not uncommon, es- pecially when CK values are markedly raised ...to inflammatory condi- tions such as ...histological inflammatory muscle infiltrates associated ...
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Trichinella inflammatory myopathy: host or parasite strategy?
... Inflammatory myopathies are not linked to specific genetic defects, although genetic factors can delineate the predisposition to develop inflammatory myopathies. The cause of an inflammatory ...
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Anti U3 ribonucleoprotein antibody positive inflammatory myopathy: a case report
... with inflammatory myopathy and found that 13 patients had dysphagia as the initial presenting symptom (11 patients with inclusion body myositis, 1 patient with polymyositis, and 1 patient with overlap ...
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Monitoring change in volume of calcifications in juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: a pilot study using low dose computed tomography
... Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy (JIIM) as well as other connective tissue and metabolic diseases, but a reliable method of measuring the volume of these calcifications has not been ...
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Tertiary lymphoid organs in the inflammatory myopathy associated with PD-1 inhibitors
... with inflammatory myopathy after treatment with PD-1 inhibitors for cancer were subjected to immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analyses to localize CD8+ cytotoxic cells and markers of lymphoid ...
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Inflammatory myopathy with anti-signal recognition particle antibodies: case series of 100 patients
... necrotizing myopathy, which is characterized by many necrotic and regenera- tive muscle fibers without or with minimal inflammatory cell ...the inflammatory processes in muscle histology, the ...
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Prevalence and clinical correlates of rheumatoid factor and anticitrullinated protein antibodies in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
... Objective as rheumatoid factor (rF) and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (acPas) are not routinely tested in idiopathic inflammatory myositis (iiM), little is known about their prevalence and clinical ...
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Quantitative 3D scintigraphy shows increased muscular uptake of pyrophosphate in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
... As part of a cross-sectional, observational study on 90 patients with PM/DM described previously and focusing on cardiac disease [22, 23], 99m Tc-PYP uptake in skeletal muscles was compared to the muscular uptake in 48 ...
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Roles of mast cells in the pathogenesis of inflammatory myopathy
... To assess the roles of mast cells in autoimmune skeletal muscle diseases, we first examined the numbers of mast cells in muscle biopsy samples from patients with new- onset DM and PM. Demographics and disease ...
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Frequency, mutual exclusivity and clinical associations of myositis autoantibodies in a combined European cohort of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy patients
... Finally, just under 40% of patients in our cohort had no identifiable autoantibody, although we did not include testing for anti-HMGCR, anti-Ro52, or anti-CN1A that are not reliably detected by our im- munoprecipitation ...
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Recent advances in the immunogenetics of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy
... This review summarizes the previous and current literature on the immunogenetics of idiopathic infl ammatory myopathy (IIM) and updates the research progress that has been made over the past decade. A substantial ...
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Familial risk of Sjögren's syndrome and co aggregation of autoimmune diseases in affected families: a nationwide population study
... idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, type 1 diabetes mellitus, multiple scle- rosis, myasthenia gravis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psoriasis, and vasculitis were estimated as the adjusted prevalence ...
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Anti Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies and Joint Involvement in Behçet's Disease
... lupus erythematosus SLE, systemic sclerosis, and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.2-5 In RA, anti-CCP antibodies are a more reliable diagnostic marker than IgM rheumatoid factor RF, and [r] ...
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A Mechanism for Statin-Induced Susceptibility to Myopathy
... leak has been linked to increased fatigue resistance (71,72). We showed bene fi cial effects of voluntary running exercise in muscle of statin-treated rats. Statin treatment no longer reduced FKBP12 binding to RyR1, ...
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Clinical review: Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy
... patients with CIP/CIM [20]. Abnormal SNAPs are charac- teristic for CIP, although local oedema can interfere with optimal sensory nerve stimulation and recording. In addition, CIP and CIM often coexist. ...
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An Unusual Case of Statin-Related Myopathy
... After inflammatory disease, Myasthenia Gravis, recurrent lymphoma in the spine, brain pathology, and paraneoplastic disease had been ruled out; we considered the possibility of a drug-induced ...
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