SAN DIEGO — Many patients who might have previously been diagnosed with polymyositis are now being treated for inclusion body myositis, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical ...

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 ...

Polymyositis is one of a group of muscle diseases known as the inflammatory myopathies, which are characterized by chronic muscle inflammation accompanied by muscle weakness. Polymyositis affects ...

What is Polymyositis? A rare condition in which inflammation causes muscle weakness and affects both sides of the body is known as polymyositis. The condition can make it difficult to climb stairs ...

Nearly one-thrid of polymyositis and dermatomyositis (PM/DM) patients admitted to the hospital are readmitted within 180 days, according to a study published in Clinical Rheumatology.

In polymyositis and inclusion-body myositis, CD8+ cytotoxic T cells surround and invade healthy-appearing, nonnecrotic muscle fibers that aberrantly express MHC class I (Figure 2A through 2D). 38 ...

Q: Which doctor should I consult for polymyositis? A: A neurologist or rheumatologist must be consulted first and additional expertise may be required from a pulmonologist, physiotherapist and ...

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.

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Polymyositis can occur in association with chronic GVHD and mimics the idiopathic form of the disease. We report two cases of chronic GVHD-associated polymyositis and review the published literature.

Polymyositis is a recognized but unusual complication of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) due to BMT. 6 We report a patient who developed GVHD-related polymyositis that resulted in ...

Polymyositis is a generalised disease of the muscles that may be acute or chronic. The condition is usually initially treated with cortisone at 1mg/kg. Sometimes the doctor will also decide to use ...