Results of an autopsy-based study revealed that sudden cardiac death and multiorgan pathology may be more closely linked to SSc than previously thought.

and irritable myopathy (18%). Jo-1 antibodies were not found in the five patients tested. The distinctive feature of muscle biopsies was perimysial pathology (92%), including acid phosphatase positive ...

Benign acute childhood myositis (BACM) and post-viral myositis (PVM) are typically distinguishable from juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), but in exceedingly rare cases, they may present similarly, ...

Benign acute childhood myositis (BACM) and post-viral myositis (PVM) are typically distinguishable from juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), but in exceedingly rare cases, they may present similarly, ...

Background In hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure (HMERF), cytoplasmic ... We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of the necklace CBs for HMERF by re-evaluating the muscle ...

While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most currently used mouse model ... Grip strength, walking ability, serum creatine-kinase levels and muscle pathology (histological and electron microscopic ...

These prominent changes disappeared in the inactive stage of the disease. In polymyositis no significant change in these lymphocyte subsets or in intracellular cytokine expression could be detected in ...

Here we describe the rare case of a 55-year-old man with medial rectus muscle myositis as an atypical presentation of non-Hodgkin B-cell mucosa-associated lymphoma (MALT). Pathology and ...

Inclusion body myositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy ... interpretation requires expertise in neuromuscular pathology.4 Differential diagnosis includes motor neuron disease, other ...

MRI of the thighs demonstrated fibrotic appearances. A biopsy of the left vastus lateralis and surrounding fascia identified pathology consistent with a fibrous myopathy. The patient was advised to ...

There was no significant valvular pathology. Notably, there was no mitral regurgitation ... Identifying HFpEF with primary atrial myopathy and EILAH may help direct therapeutic interventions.