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  2. Polymyalgia rheumatica - Wikipedia

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    Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a syndrome experienced as pain or stiffness, usually in the neck, shoulders, upper arms, and hips, but which may occur all over the body. The pain can be sudden or can occur gradually over a period.

  3. Physical medicine and rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    The major goal of physical medicine and rehabilitation treatment is to help a person function optimally within the limitations placed upon them by a disabling impairment or disease process for which there is no known cure. The emphasis is not on the full restoration to the premorbid level of function, but rather the optimization of the quality ...

  4. Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema

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    The disease mechanism (pathophysiology) of RS3PE remains unknown. One study suggested a possible role for vascular endothelial growth factor. [13] A study using magnetic resonance imaging found that tenosynovitis of the extensors of the hands and feet is the major contributor to edema. [14]

  5. Neuromuscular disease - Wikipedia

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    Further causes of neuromuscular diseases are: Polymyositis. Inflammatory muscle disorders. Polymyalgia rheumatica (or "muscle rheumatism") is an inflammatory condition that mainly occurs in the elderly; it is associated with giant-cell arteritis (It often responds to prednisolone). [18] Polymyositis is an autoimmune condition in which the ...

  6. PMR - Wikipedia

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    PMR Ltd, consulting, market research, publications; Partidul Muncitoresc Român (Romanian Workers' Party), the ruling party in communist Romania from 1948 to 1965; Parti Mauritanien pour le Renouveau, Mauritanian Party for Renewal, a political party in Mauritania; Port Militarization Resistance, an anti-war organization in the United States

  7. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare and often fatal viral disease characterized by progressive damage (-pathy) or inflammation of the white matter (leuko-) of the brain (-encephalo-) at multiple locations (multifocal). It is caused by the JC virus, which is normally present and kept under control by the immune system. The ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. PET response criteria in solid tumors - Wikipedia

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    Stable metabolic disease (SMD) Not CMR, PMR, or Progressive metabolic disease (PMD) No new lesions; Progressive metabolic disease (PMD) >30% increase in 18F-FDG SUL peak, with >0.8 SUL units increase in tumor SUV peak from the baseline scan in pattern typical of tumor and not of infection/treatment effect.