A 7-year-old girl presented with proximal muscle weakness and skin lesions. Physical examination revealed violaceous papules on the right forearm in a blaschkoid distribution. Her symptoms and test results were consistent with juvenile dermatomyositis. An unusual superimposed segmental manifestation of this disease is discussed.
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Ann Vasc Dis
December 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, KKR Sapporo Medical Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Thoracic descending aortic perforation with overlap syndrome (systemic sclerosis and dermatomyositis) is a rare, unreported vascular pathology. We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with chest tightness, back pain, and dyspnea. Computed tomography revealed a pinhole rupture in the descending aorta.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to explore the potential causal link between genetic predisposition to various connective tissue diseases (CTDs), namely systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren's syndrome (SS), polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), systemic sclerosis (SSc), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and the incidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) utilizing Mendelian randomization (MR). Employing a two-sample MR approach, genetic variants associated with CTDs served as instrumental variables to investigate the exposure-outcome relationship, with GWAS data sourced from the FinnGen Biobank. Comprehensive statistical analyses, including the inverse variance weighted (IVW) method, were conducted, alongside heterogeneity, pleiotropy, and sensitivity tests to ensure the robustness and validity of findings.
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December 2024
Department of Neurology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
December 2024
Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Dermatomyositis (DM) is an autoimmune idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with characteristic dermatologic manifestations. Myositis-specific autoantibodies (MSAs) delineate DM subtypes and their prognoses. Uncommonly, patients present with distinct clinical features of DM, including photosensitive dermatitis, heliotrope rash, Gottron's papules, and nailfold changes; however, their autoimmune serology is negative for expected MSAs.
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December 2024
From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing.
An 18F-FDG PET/CT was conducted on a 44-year-old man with a history of dermatomyositis and avascular necrosis of left femoral head, due to a fever of unknown origin. The scan revealed patchy and cloudy high densities within the medullary cavities of bilateral distal femur and proximal tibia, exhibiting peripheral high 18F-FDG avidity. Subsequent MRI confirmed bone infarction.
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