Polymyositis refers to a rare inflammatory disease that causes muscle weakness, tissue damage and swelling tenderness. This disease is part of a larger group of diseases that are called myositis.

Polymyositis is a rare inflammatory disease that leads to muscle weakness, swelling tenderness, and tissue damage. It is part of a larger group of diseases called myositis.

Although no permanent cure for Polymyositis is found till date, treatment therapies can improve muscle strength and function.Las Vegas, USAPolymyositis Pipeline to Progress with New and Emerging ...

Find the latest Polymyositis news articles, videos, podcasts, and meeting coverage from medical experts and key opinion leaders you trust.

Researchers conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study of 2,023 patients with dermatomyositis (DM) or polymyositis (PM) compared with 7,409 matched participants from the general ...

The 44-year-old, who suffers from polymyositis, wrote on Twitter: 'My body insisted against me. I learned to calculate and dose fear. Every day, a loss. The insidious disease won.

Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis are two of the five types of autoimmune myositis diseases. Both are chronic, debilitating, inflammatory autoimmune myopathies that are distinguished by ...

About Types Causes Symptoms Complications Diagnosis Treatment FAQs Glossary Latest Publications Written by - Dr. Aarti Singh, M.B.B.S Medically Reviewed by - Dr. Simi Paknikar, MD Last Updated on ...

Okiyama, N. et al. Therapeutic effects of interleukin-6 blockade in a murine model of polymyositis that does not require interleukin-17A. Arthritis Rheum. 60, 2505–2512 (2009).

Correspondence Case 26-2001: Scleroderma Renal Crisis and Polymyositis Published June 13, 2002 N Engl J Med 2002;346: 1916 - 1918 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200206133462418 ...

Acute polymyositis presenting as chronic graft-versus-host disease: A systemic review. Authors: Abdul Basit, Moazzam Shahzad, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Fatima Khalid, Nausheen Ahmed, Sharad Khurana, ...

Critical roles of T cells in idiopathic polymyositis have been suggested, but, those in polymyositis occurring as GVHD after BMT are poorly understood. We thus investigated T cell clonality in a ...