Inclusion body myositis mainly affects males, but females can get it too. It’s also known as inflammatory myopathy or sporadic inclusion body myositis. The condition involves progressive muscle ...

SAN DIEGO — Many patients who might have previously been diagnosed with polymyositis are now being treated for inclusion body myositis, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical ...

Myositis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the muscles, can be classified into various subtypes, including dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and inclusion body myositis. The identification of ...

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) presents with a characteristic ... sIBM is often misdiagnosed as polymyositis or other diseases, and is frequently only suspected retrospectively when ...

Patients with dermatomyositis reported the most pain (97.2%), followed by polymyositis (94.5%) and inclusion-body myositis (80.9%). There were higher risks for pain in patients with ...

IBM, an inflammatory myopathy, often afflicts those in their ... Laboratory testing of ANA and anti-SSA antibodies using a myositis panel can differentiate between dermatomyositis and ...

Myopathic (myo = muscle, pathy = disease) conditions can include polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, and various myopathies due to metabolic, congenital, and endocrine causes.

This group of diseases includes polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion-body myositis. Little is known about the cause and the etiopathogenic mechanisms of these myopathies, but it is ...

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory myopathy causing proximal and distal muscle weakness. IBM’s cause remains unknown, lacking validated models, biomarkers and effective treatment ...

Inclusion body myositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Whether its cause is primarily autoimmune or degenerative is debated. Its prevalence is 18 per 100 000 people, higher than ...

The distinction between sIBM and the other, mostly hereditary vacuolar myopathies, such as myofibrillar myopathies or hereditary inclusion body myopathy with mutations in the glucosamine (UDP-N ...

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) presents with a characteristic clinical phenotype of slow-onset weakness and atrophy, affecting proximal and distal limb muscles and facial and pharyngeal ...