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[18] 30.4–88.9% of those with antisynthetase syndrome report persistent muscular tenderness and myalgia. [19] [20] In antisynthetase syndrome, arthritis is commonly described as a symmetrical, non-erosive polyarthritis of the small hands and feet that can sometimes mimic CTD-associated, rheumatoid, and seronegative inflammatory arthritis. [21]
Antisynthetase syndrome; Inhaled substances (pneumoconiosis ... Life expectancy after lung transplant is 5.2 years in those with idiopathic interstitial ...
People with scleromyositis have symptoms of both systemic scleroderma and either polymyositis or dermatomyositis, and is therefore considered an overlap syndrome. Although it is a rare disease, it is one of the more common overlap syndromes seen in scleroderma patients, together with MCTD and Antisynthetase syndrome.
From 2019 to 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped from 78.8 years to 7 6.4. Covid deaths fell significantly last year: Whereas Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, it was the 10th in ...
Life expectancy may be plateauing. Don’t expect your grandkids to live to 200 years old. A study published on Monday suggests we may be reaching our limit in terms of life expectancy and that ...
The most common first sign of MSA is the appearance of an "akinetic-rigid syndrome" (i.e. slowness of initiation of movement resembling Parkinson's disease) found in 62% at first presentation. Other common signs at onset include problems with balance (cerebellar ataxia) found in 22% at first presentation, followed by genito-urinary symptoms (9% ...
It may surprise you, but restless legs syndrome (RLS) affects 7% to 10% of the U.S. population, with varying degrees of severity. In the most extreme cases of this neurological disorder, patients ...
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 ...