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Prog Rehabil Med
January 2025
Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Japan.
Background: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of autoimmune myositis. Anti-signal recognition particle (SRP) antibodies are highly specific to this disease.
Case: A 76-year-old woman presented with a 4-month history of acute progressive limb muscle weakness and dysphagia.
J Neurol
January 2025
Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Background: Neurologic symptoms seen in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) may not be entirely caused by immunotoxicity. We aim to highlight these confounding conditions through clinical cases to encourage early recognition and management.
Methods: We describe a series of seven cases from our institution that were treated with ICI and presented with Neurologic symptoms and were diagnosed with superimposed conditions beyond immunotoxicity.
Acta Dermatovenerol Croat
November 2024
Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD, Department of Paediatrics, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergology, Centre of Reference for Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology of Ministry of Health of the Republic Croatia, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Kispaticeva 12, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia;
Juvenile dermatomyositis with emphasized vasculopathy is rare, but the most severe form of the disease, with a poor prognosis with relapsing and chronic course or, in some cases, lethal outcome. We present a case of a 19-year-old Caucasian female, who developed severe acute juvenile dermatomyositis with emphasized multisystem vasculopathy, including retinal vasculopathy and maculopathy (cotton-wool spots, retinal hemorrhages, macular edema) at the age of 8. Due to no response to standard treatment protocols and rapid worsening of clinical symptoms and laboratory findings, a TNF inhibitor (infliximab) was introduced after the third week of treatment resulting in complete normalisation of muscle enzyme levels and complete resolution of eye changes within the next 2 weeks with a gradual general recovery.
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November 2024
Department of Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
Background: Clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM) is a rare subtype of idiopathic inflammatory myositis often linked with the presence of autoantibodies targeting melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5). Patients with CADM are at increased risk of developing rapidly progressing interstitial lung disease, which significantly increases both morbidity and mortality compared to other forms of inflammatory myopathies. While there is no standardized treatment regimen, current therapeutic strategies are generally focused on combination immunosuppressive therapies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompartment syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) has rarely been documented. We report the case of a 53-year-old male, hypertensive, who developed compartment syndrome and myositis in the right lower limb. The patient underwent emergency fasciotomies of the anterior, lateral, superficial posterior and deep posterior compartments of the leg and two subsequent surgical debridements, in addition to receiving antibiotic treatment and delayed closure of the fasciotomies with grafts.
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