ALLMedicine™ Amyopathic Dermatomyositis Center

May 18th, 2021 - We present a patient with anti-MDA5 negative, anti-Ku positive clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM). A 61-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of a 20-year history of a pruritic rash that was active on her face, chest, hands, le...

Mar 21st, 2021 - The anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5) antibody is the main predictor of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in dermatomyositis (DM) and clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM). Nevertheless, a subset of MDA5+ patients have a ...

Mar 17th, 2021 - Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and its ligand very late antigen (VLA-4) play important roles in many autoimmune diseases. Our study aimed to investigate the serum level of VCAM-1 and VLA-4 expression on peripheral blood neutrophil surf...

Mar 16th, 2021 - The term clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) is used to represent a subgroup of patients with the typical cutaneous features of dermatomyositis (DM) in the absence of muscle involvement. Similar to classic DM, CADM can be associated with ...

Mar 6th, 2021 - Unilateral heliotrope rash and inverse Gottron's sign in a patient with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis and a positive anti-MDA5 antibody.|2021|Kusano M,Yamamoto M,Yamamoto T,|

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a common complication of dermatomyositis (DM) with prevalence up to 65%, and is considered to be one of the determining factors of prognosis. Clinical amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM), which is a special phenoty...

Apr 8th, 2019 - The Diagnosis: Juvenile Dermatomyositis Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy of childhood that is autoimmune in nature with an annual incidence ranging from 2. 5 to 4.

Jun 3rd, 2018 - “We saw that there was a much higher rate of misdiagnosis in patients who didn’t have any muscle disease. We have to raise awareness that amyopathic dermatomyositis is a very prevalent condition,” Dr.

Aug 24th, 2017 - Comment Amyopathic DM is a subset of DM that accounts for 10% to 20% of DM cases. 1,2 Sontheimer’s3 diagnostic criteria for ADM require histopathologic confirmation of the hallmark skin findings of classic DM and lack of muscle weakness or muscle e.

Oct 1st, 2015 - Action Points Interstitiallung disease (ILD) is an under-recognized and deadly complication of dermatomyositis (DM), a rare autoimmune disease. The anti-MDA5 autoantibody is significantly associated with ILD, rapidly progressive ILD and worse pulm...

Mar 14th, 2012 - Dr. Vleugels reported having no financial conflicts.