Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

Varied approaches to remote patient monitoring are in development to close care gaps between patients and rheumatologists, ...

Inclusion body myositis, polymyositis, and dermatomyositis are three distinct categories of inflammatory myopathy. Some authorities commented on the selective early weakness of the volar forearm ...

Laboratory analysis and a muscle biopsy specimen led to the diagnosis of polymyositis. Chest imaging revealed a bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumor. Symptoms and laboratory derangements remitted ...

The prevalence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) across connective tissue disorders (CTDs) and its persistent standing as a leading cause of death in patients with CTDs challenge rheumatologists ...

Recently, we identified the selenoprotein N gene (SEPN1) as responsible for SEPN-related myopathy (SEPN-RM), a unique early-onset myopathy formerly divided in two different nosological categories ...

The question of whether CoQ10 can help treat statin myopathy is a common one encountered by clinicians in current day practice.

Of 85 consecutive patients with mitochondrial myopathy, 29 had clinically significant central nervous system involvement. Nine of these had movement disorders that included dystonia, chorea ...

Myopathy, defined as muscle aching or weakness in conjunction with creatine phosphokinase elevations greater than 10 times the upper limit of normal, occurred in <0.1% of clinical trial subjects.

This review focuses on long-term adverse effects related to statin use, namely hepatotoxicity and myopathy. Moreover, the most common drugs used in combination with statins in long-term therapies ...

In this randomized study, patients served as their own controls. Myositis ossificans can develop in patients who are paralyzed for long periods of time, but inflammation is not characteristic of ...