...-mitochondrial antibody Polymyositis Primary biliary cirrhosis Lymphocytic infiltration Limb muscle Myositis-specific autoantibodies such as antibodies targeted against aminoacyl-transfer RNA synthetase (anti-Jo-1), anti-signal recognition particle autoantibodies, and anti-Mi-2 antibodies...

... of high-dose alternate-day (ADT) and daily-dose (DDT) prednisolone therapies in myositis patients, but that the incidence of side effects was lower in the former. The aim of the present study was to compare the long-term outcomes of both treatments in polymyositis patients. Methods: We compared clinical...

..., biopsied muscle specimens were examined from patients with polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM). Generally, in specimens from patients with PM and DM, but not in those from normal controls, muscle fibers surrounding inflammatory infiltrates or in the perifascicular regions, and occasionally...

... with polymyositis. Electron microscopic examination disclosed diffuse increase of mitochondria in subsarcolemma and intermyofibrils, which has not been reported until now in polymyositis associated with PBC. 17 07 1991 28 11 1991 12 2 2008 © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel 1993 Copyright / Drug...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Paraneoplastic myositis Polymyositis Autoantibody Paraneoplastic syndrome Colon cancer Original Paper Eur Neurol 1992;32:281-284 Hidetsugu Ueyama Toshihide Kumamoto Shukuro Araki First Department of Internal Medicine. Kumamoto...

... demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) in one patient and CIDP associated with polymyositis in the other. Both patients responded to prednisone and azathioprine with substantial improvement. Patients with HMSN who develop rapid progression of weakness should be evaluated for superimposed, potentially...

.... Dermatomyositis Polymyositis Methotrexate Electromyography Muscle biopsy Serum level of muscle enzymes in ... ...

...J. De Reuck; E. Thiery; W. De Coster; H. van der Eecken The case report of a 23-year-old man with polymyositis and some myasthenic features is presented. The biopsy findings suggest a preferential involvement of the neuromuscular junctions by the inflammatory process, a fact which explains...

... confusion with neurogenic diseases, and spontaneous activity was absent in a relatively large group although none of the patients in the acute stage of the disease had a normal EMG. The use of corticosteroids reduced the number of abnormal findings in dermatomyositis and polymyositis, but not in inclusion...

...Young-Chul Choi; Tai-Seung Kim; Soo-Youl Kim Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IMs), including dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), and sporadic inclusion body myositis (s-IBM), are characterized by inflammatory cell infiltration in muscle tissue and muscle fiber destruction, which leads...

... infiltrates in skeletal muscle tissue [ 1, 2 ]. The three major categories of this disorder are dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM) and inclusion body myositis [ 1, 2 ]. The mainstay first-line treatment for DM and PM is the use of high-dose steroids [ 1, 2, 3 ]. One of the major disadvantages...

... of 1.0–2.0 g/day was given in 2 patients with severe refractory myasthenia gravis and in 1 patient with myasthenia gravis-polymyositis syndrome. Apart from dose-dependent reversible hemolytic anemia in 1 patient, no severe side effects occurred. Considerable improvement of myasthenic symptoms was seen...