Patient-performed functional tests were found to be reliable, scalable options for assessing muscle function in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Recent research into sycamore seeds, which can cause atypical myopathy when consumed by a horse and is a serious threat — potentially fatal — to equine health, has found that levels of toxicity ...

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory myopathy causing proximal and distal muscle weakness. IBM’s cause remains ...

"One of the approaches I used in my project was bridging western medicine and also traditional indigenous practices." ...

An acute necrotising myopathy is a distinct form of uncommon muscle disease characterised by the rapid advancement of ...

Prince Frederik of Luxembourg, aged 22, passed away from POLG mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disorder. His father ...

According to Dr Shubham Vatsya, senior consultant, Fortis Hospital, one of the most under-recognised but common issue among ...

Various measures of abnormal left atrial (LA) structure or function (LA myopathy) are associated with a higher risk of ischemic stroke and dementia, independent of atrial fibrillation. However, ...

Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of inflammatory myopathy. Most patients with IMNM produce anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase or anti-signal-recognition particle ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic autoimmune inflammatory disorders characterised by symmetrical skeletal muscle weakness and accelerated fatigue also in the early ...

OPDM4 is an exceptionally rare disorder (Yu et al., 2022; Zeng et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2023; Eura et al., 2024). It is urgently needed to further accumulate cases to deepen our understanding of the ...

A number of proteins regulating this process are mutated in human diseases. We focus on centronuclear myopathy due to mutations in the large GTPase dynamin 2 (DNM2), the first protein shown to ...