polymyositis

The main causes of these symptoms are two conditions, polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

Confirmed polymyositis with the skin signs is known as dermatomyositis.

Wright died from polymyositis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 70.

Polymyositis, like dermatomyositis, strikes females with greater frequency than males.

It is related to polymyositis and inclusion body myositis.

Polymyositis causes muscle weakness, usually in the muscles closest to the trunk of your body.

The skin involvement of dermatomyositis is absent in polymyositis.

The first line treatment for polymyositis is corticosteroids.

Polymyositis that does not respond to treatment is likely IBM.

The cause was heart failure due to polymyositis, a muscle disease, said his wife, Elaine Grove.

Foot drop in one or both feet can be a symptom of advanced polymyositis and inclusion body myositis.

Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.

However, from ages 14 to 17, she suffered from polymyositis, a degenerative muscle disease.

She took Diana to the hospital, where doctors determined that she had polymyositis, an inflammatory muscle disease.

Polymyositis is also associated with interstitial lung diseases.

The cause of polymyositis is unknown and may involve viruses and autoimmune factors.

IBM and polymyositis apparently involve different disease mechanisms than are seen in dermatomyositis.

Elevated serum creatine kinase is characteristic, but not specific to polymyositis.

These disorders include systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis, and scleroderma.

The diseases dermatomyositis and polymyositis both involve myositis.

Muscle diseases such as polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

Polymyositis usually is considered non-fatal in the absence of ILD.

High troponin T levels have also been reported in patients with inflammatory muscle diseases such as polymyositis or dermatomyositis.

It has been shown to be a target of autoantibodies in the human autoimmune diseases, polymyositis or dermatomyositis.

It may have different root causes unrelated to either polymyositis or sIBM.