ArticleRheumatology international2015
Polymyositis, a very uncommon isolated disease: clinical and histological re-evaluation after long-term follow-up.
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- Swelling of the Muscles of the Shoulder Girdle in a CT Scan is a Leading Finding for the Diagnosis of Polymyositis.Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2023Article
- Myositis-specific antibodies and clinical characteristics in patients with autoimmune inflammatory myopathies: reported by the Argentine Registry of Inflammatory Myopathies of the Argentine Society of Rheumatology.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Article
- Clinical utility of anti-cytosolic 5'-nucleotidase 1A antibody in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2021Article
- Recurrent focal myositis developing into a generalised idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase autoantibodies.BMJ case reports · 2019Article
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- Diagnostic Imaging of Inflammatory Myopathies: New Concepts and a Radiological Approach.Current rheumatology reports · 2019Review
- Classification and management of adult inflammatory myopathies.The Lancet. Neurology · 2018Review
- DEPTOR-mTOR Signaling Is Critical for Lipid Metabolism and Inflammation Homeostasis of Lymphocytes in Human PBMC Culture.Journal of immunology research · 2017Article
- Identification of Palmitoleic Acid Controlled by mTOR Signaling as a Biomarker of Polymyositis.Journal of immunology research · 2017Article
- Inflammatory myopathy: diagnosis and clinical course, specific clinical scenarios and new complementary tools.Expert review of clinical immunology · 2015Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to explore whether polymyositis may be considered as an isolated, organ-specific disease or more suitably as a secondary or associated entity. A retrospective re-evaluation of all the muscle biopsies performed at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona showing histopathological pattern of polymyositis from January 1997 to May 2012 was carried out. The medical records of the patients with the aforementioned pathological pattern were also reviewed. From 1.290 muscle biopsies performed during the period evaluated, 36 with polymyositis pattern were identified. At the time of muscle biopsy, polymyositis pattern was secondary or associated with other disease in 26 patients and was classified as isolated in the remaining ten patients. After pathological re-evaluation and long-term clinical follow-up, only one patient remained with this diagnosis. Overall, the main final diagnosis related to the initial polymyositis pattern was inflammatory myopathy associated with connective tissue disease. Several other associated conditions were also identified. Isolated polymyositis is highly uncommon. Ruling out potential associated or confusing entities, like inclusion body myositis, overlap syndromes, infections, and cancer, is mandatory.
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