ALLMedicine™ Polymyositis Center

Feb 23rd, 2021 - This is the first reported case of acute exudative paraneoplastic polymorphous vitelliform maculopathy (AEPPVM) in a patient with thymoma, accompanied by myasthenia gravis (MG) and polymyositis. To examine the pathogenesis of ocular disease in a p...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - History A 46-year-old woman with known mixed connective tissue disease with clinical features of scleroderma and polymyositis and who was not on specific medications was referred to our institution to assess for interstitial lung disease due to he...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Active toxoplasmosis presenting with polymyositis and pleural effusion in a child.|2021|Singhal KK,Kumar K,Mathew JL,Mewara A,Vaidya PC,|

Feb 6th, 2021 - To assess the association of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) with particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM2.5) and clinical data in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). We used the 2003-2017 nationwide data in Taiwan to...

Jan 31st, 2021 - Widespread soft tissue calcification in systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, and polyarthritis.|2021|Hudowenz O,Klemm P,Lange U,Mueller-Ladner U,|

Dec 18th, 2018 - Although rheumatologists, neurologists and dermatologists see patients with polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM), their management appears to vary depending on the physician's specialty. The aim of the present study was to establish the trea...

Apr 7th, 2017 - To develop response criteria for adult dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM). Expert surveys, logistic regression, and conjoint analysis were used to develop 287 definitions using core set measures. Myositis experts rated greater improvement ...

Sep 17th, 2009 - Consensus statements are important for developing treatment recommendations when evidence- based medicine (EBM) and treatment based on controlled trials is sparse or nonexistent. In this setting, it is clinically helpful to assemble a group of exp.

Feb 23rd, 2021 - This is the first reported case of acute exudative paraneoplastic polymorphous vitelliform maculopathy (AEPPVM) in a patient with thymoma, accompanied by myasthenia gravis (MG) and polymyositis. To examine the pathogenesis of ocular disease in a p...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - History A 46-year-old woman with known mixed connective tissue disease with clinical features of scleroderma and polymyositis and who was not on specific medications was referred to our institution to assess for interstitial lung disease due to he...

Feb 18th, 2021 - Home-based subcutaneous immune globulin therapy is a promising alternative to intravenous immune globulin therapy for patients with refractory dermatomyositis or polymyositis, Anna Postolova, MD, MPH, declared at the 2021 Rheumatology Winter Clini...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Active toxoplasmosis presenting with polymyositis and pleural effusion in a child.|2021|Singhal KK,Kumar K,Mathew JL,Mewara A,Vaidya PC,|

Feb 6th, 2021 - To assess the association of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) with particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM2.5) and clinical data in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). We used the 2003-2017 nationwide data in Taiwan to...

Feb 18th, 2021 - Home-based subcutaneous immune globulin therapy is a promising alternative to intravenous immune globulin therapy for patients with refractory dermatomyositis or polymyositis, Anna Postolova, MD, MPH, declared at the 2021 Rheumatology Winter Clini...

Oct 15th, 2019 - Among patients with systemic rheumatic diseases, the highest incidence of opportunistic infections was seen in those with polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM), Taiwanese researchers found. In a nationally representative cohort study, the incidence...

Feb 27th, 2019 - Amyloid PET imaging may help to accurately identify inclusion body myositis and distinguish it from polymyositis, which could potentially avoid misdiagnosis and unnecessary immunosuppressive medication, according to findings from a small prospecti.

Feb 20th, 2019 - Overlap Sometimes patients with polymyositis also have other rheumatologic conditions that shouldn’t be overlooked, therefore “overlap is its own category,” she said. “In our experience, the most common overlap is scleroderma,” she noted, adding t.

Jul 18th, 2018 - Action Points Be aware that patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies have double the risk of both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke compared to the general population, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study. Note that the idiop...