Inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune diseases characterized by immune-mediated damage to skeletal muscle. They are classified into five major subtypes: inclusion-body ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with myositis typically present with telltale muscle inflammation. However, properly identifying the ...

Neil is KSBY's Senior Reporter and anchor of KSBY News Daybreak. He's one of your dedicated community reporters for the City of San Luis Obispo. Myositis is a debilitating disease that causes ...

I have a patient with myositis and panniculitis. A muscle biopsy was normal (but was followed by pyogenic infection). Other test results are as follows: creatine phosphokinase (CPK) slightly elevated; ...

Marine Corps veteran Tierney Mayer-Tucker, who deployed twice to the Persian Gulf, said that doctors for years misdiagnosed and dismissed a growing array of vague medical symptoms he was experiencing ...

Few controlled studies are available to guide treatment strategies in dermatomyositis (DM), and treatment recommendations for DM have mostly been based on case series, case reports, and expert opinion ...

Belonging to the same group of autoimmune diseases, both dermatomyositis and polymyositis cause muscle inflammation and weakness. But dermatomyositis also affects your skin and is more likely to ...