In the first study of its kind, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and rheumatologists at Karolinska Sjukhuset have characterized T cells in the muscle tissue of patients with idiopathic ...

In most patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, recombinant zoster vaccine induces seroconversion, but the antibody levels remain low compared with those in healthy individuals.

A new study has suggested that treatment to target necroptosis in muscle fibers using a necroptosis inhibitor lessens myositis-induced muscle weakness as well as muscle cell death and inflammation in ...

Jackson, MS - New research suggests that mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) can be used in the management of autoimmune inflammatory myopathy. The finding, published in the March 2005 issue of Rheumatology, ...

There is a lack of recent, population-based epidemiology for IIM, particularly at the level of individual IIM subtypes. A group from the United Kingdom aimed to provide a detailed, large-scale, ...

Despite modern medical therapies, multiorgan idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are associated with reduced quality of life and life expectancy. A systematic review of all published ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies constitute a group of rare systemic autoimmune disorders characterised principally by chronic inflammation of skeletal muscle, manifesting as muscle weakness and ...

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Early-onset IBM challenges age-centric diagnostic criteria, with symptoms appearing in patients younger than 46. Younger IBM patients show a higher rate of mitochondrial DNA mutations, indicating ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) comprise a group of inflammatory disorders in which there is chronic inflammation of skeletal muscle. This is then followed by muscle weakness. One type of ...

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