ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2016
Investigation into the cause of mortality in 49 cases of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: A single center study.
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- Associated factors in the development of rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
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- The prevalence, clinical features, predictive factors and investigations to screen for cancer in patients with inflammatory myositis. A case series from two tertiary care centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2021Article
- Cardiovascular complications in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: does heart matter in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies?Heart failure reviews · 2021Review
- Dermatomyositis: An Acute Flare and Current Treatments.Clinical medicine insights. Case reports · 2019Article
- A mutation of beta-tropomyosin gene in a Chinese family with distal arthrogryposis type I.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic muscle weakness and myositis with unknown etiology. IIM may affect the function of multiple organs and has a poor prognosis. In the present study, the causes of mortality in patients with IIM admitted to the Xiangya Hospital during the last 14 years were investigated. The investigation included an analysis of frequent causes of IIM, and of infections and associated complications. A cohort study was conducted on 676 patients with IIM that were admitted to Xiangya Hospital from January, 2001 to January, 2015. There were 49 patient mortalities (7.2% of the total cases), of which 34 mortalities were infection-associated and 15 were not infection-associated. The proportion of infection-associated IIM mortalities had increased since 2001. Of the 34 infection-associated mortalities, 31 cases (63.3%) were of fungal and bacterial infections, most frequently infecting the lungs and the blood.
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