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ArticleCureus2024

Inflammatory Myopathy: When Electromyography and Autoantibodies Don't Help the Diagnosis.

Anabela De Carvalho, Luís Filipe Couto, Filipe Gonçalves, Jorge Cotter

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anabela De CarvalhoInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Ave, Guimarães, PRT.
Luís Filipe CoutoInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Ave, Guimarães, PRT.
Filipe GonçalvesInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Ave, Guimarães, PRT.
Jorge CotterInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Ave, Guimarães, PRT.
Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are the most treatable myopathies. Necrotizing autoimmune myositis is a distinct clinicopathologic entity that starts either acutely or subacutely. Autoimmunity is essencial in the pathogenesis of myositis and autoantibodies may be present in more than 50% of patients. We present the case of a 73-year-old man with elevated levels of CK and aldolase, and proximal symmetric muscle weakness and weight loss. The etiological investigation revealed, via muscle biopsy, a necrotizing autoimmune myositis, even though the majority of usual autoantibodies and electromyography were negative. The case demonstrates the importance of combining the patient's symptoms, neurological examination, and analytical changes to corroborate the suspicion of myopathy.

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autoimmune necrotizing myositiscorticosteroidsidiopathic inflammatory myopathiesmyositis-specific autoantibodiessubacute-onset muscle weakness

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PMID38445121
PMCPMC10914304
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