Espírito Santo, Joana Almeida and Garcia, Rui and Barbosa, Benilde and Rebelo, Olinda and Pereira de Moura, José (2015) Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy: An Often Misdiagnosed Entity. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies (IMNM) are recognized as a subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). IMNM are defined based on a combination of clinical presentation and laboratory studies, requiring a specific myopathological pattern on muscle biopsy for diagnosis. The authors describe a case of a patient with necrotizing myopathy, thought to be immune mediated, highlighting the challenge of its differential diagnosis. As clinical assessment and diagnostic tools sometimes fail to determine whether a necrotizing myopathy is immune mediated, leading to misdiagnosis and a compromise of the optimal therapeutic approach, distinguishing between IMNM and other myopathies is crucial.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Myopathy; Necrotizing myopathy; Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.7 Malattie del sistema muscoloscheletrico |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2016 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2016 15:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15005 |
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