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

Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the independent association of LA myopathy markers with the outcome. Among 4712 participants (59% female; mean age, 74 years), 193 ischemic strokes ...

The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a professional organization with a mission of connecting research and practice to continuously improve the quality of literacy instruction across the ...

Cancer risk is much higher in cases of seronegative IMNM than anti-SRP myopathy. The association between cancer and anti-HMGCR myopathy is debatable, although some studies have reported a positive ...

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 ...

We Care for Rare Summit: Celebrating Myositis Science and Patient Stories on Rare Disease Day Rare Disease Day Summit highlights myositis and the 7000 other rare diseases affecting one in ten American ...

The Lions Club of McCrae is throwing its support behind the Myositis Association with its members lighting up the lighthouse – one of many buildings around the world to be lit up in a burst of colour.

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 ...

Myositis-specific autoantibodies (MSAs) are specific to patients with IIMs. Myositis-associated autoantibodies (MAAs) can also occur in dermatomyositis but is commonly seen in overlap with another ...