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  2. Inflammatory myopathy - Wikipedia

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    There have been few randomized treatment trials, due to the relative rarity of inflammatory myopathies. [4] The goal of treatment is improvement in activities of daily living and muscle strength. Suppression of immune system activity (immunosuppression) is the treatment strategy. Patients with PM or DM almost always improve to some degree in ...

  3. Polymyositis - Wikipedia

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    Polymyositis and the associated inflammatory myopathies have an associated increased risk of cancer. [3] The features they found associated with an increased risk of cancer were older age, age greater than 45, male sex, difficulty swallowing, death of skin cells, cutaneous vasculitis, rapid onset of myositis (<4 weeks), elevated creatine kinase, higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate and higher ...

  4. Myositis - Wikipedia

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    For myositis, which is caused by a viral infection, no treatment is typically needed. [4] For myositis caused by a bacterial infection, antibiotics can be used. [4] For myositis caused by a medication, it is important to stop using that medication. [4] There are a variety of treatment options available if myositis is caused by an autoimmune ...

  5. Exercise therapy for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

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    Although they vary in particulars, polymyositis, dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis are idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) [1] primarily characterized by chronic inflammation of human skeletal muscle tissue [2] that ultimately causes the necrosis of muscle cells. This degeneration leads to muscle tissue wasting, weakness and ...

  6. Myopathy - Wikipedia

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    Polymyositis produces muscle weakness. It can often be treated by drugs like corticosteroids or immunosuppressants. Inclusion body myositis is a slowly progressive disease that produces weakness of hand grip and straightening of the knees. No effective treatment is known. (M60.9) Benign acute childhood myositis (M61) Myositis ossificans

  7. Antisynthetase syndrome - Wikipedia

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    It is usually only used to treat severe inflammatory myopathy and interstitial lung disease, especially acute respiratory distress syndrome, due to the severe nature of many of the possible side effects. Numerous case series have shown its effectiveness in treating inflammatory myopathy with and without interstitial lung disease.

  8. Inclusion body myositis - Wikipedia

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    IBM is often confused with (misdiagnosed as) polymyositis. Polymyositis that does not respond to treatment is likely IBM. [35] Dermatomyositis shares a number of similar physical symptoms and histopathological traits as polymyositis, but exhibits a skin rash not seen in polymyositis or sIBM. It may have different root causes unrelated to either ...

  9. Scleromyositis - Wikipedia

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    Scleromyositis, is an autoimmune disease (a disease in which the immune system attacks the body). People with scleromyositis have symptoms of both systemic scleroderma and either polymyositis or dermatomyositis, and is therefore considered an overlap syndrome.