Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a long-term disease in which a child's muscles, skin, and sometimes other organs become inflamed or damaged. What Causes Juvenile Dermatomyositis? Juvenile ...

This case report describes the management of a patient, recently diagnosed with Stage IIIC cervical cancer, presenting with significant proximal muscle weakness, dysphagia and cutaneous changes over ...

The health expert explained, “Dermatomyositis is an uncommon inflammatory disease that causes muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash. The muscles of the shoulders, upper arms, hips ...

The clinical, pathological and molecular features of gastrointestinal involvements in nuclear matrix protein 2 + dermatomyositis were summarised. Activation of type-I interferon in gastrointestinal ...

Myositis: This is a type of myopathy that causes inflammation of your muscles ... also known as inflammatory myopathies because the muscles become inflamed and weak. Dermatomyositis: The immune system ...

Cartesian Therapeutics said it has received rare pediatric disease designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Descartes-08 treatment of juvenile dermatomyositis.

Even though clinically significant heart involvement is uncommon, heart disease is one of the major causes of death in IIM ... in patients with the IIM subgroups polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM ...

Myopathic (myo = muscle, pathy = disease) conditions can include polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, and various myopathies due to metabolic, congenital, and endocrine causes.

It occurs in several connective tissue diseases, mainly systemic sclerosis and dermatomyositis, and can cause immense discomfort, pain and/or ulceration. The pathophysiology of the disorder is still ...

There are different types of Myositis — Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis are the most common ones. Polymyositis causes muscle weakness which is closest to the trunk of the body, whereas ...

During your two-week pediatric rheumatology rotation, you are likely to see individuals with juvenile inflammatory arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, seronegative spondyloarthropathies, juvenile ...