Researchers have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential candidates for immunosuppressive therapy.

Idiopathic myopathies include polymyositis, dermatomyositis, non-specific myositis, and necrotizing myopathy. 1 These are very rare conditions and may be missed if one is unfamiliar with the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

A subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential candidates for immunosuppressive therapy have been identified by researchers at ...

Source Reference: Barbacki A, et al "Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy and dietary sources of statins" Ann Intern Med 2018; doi:10.7326/L17-0620.

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With statins carrying a risk of myopathy, researchers are sharing the details of a case report of a patient with statin-induced necrotizing myositis, published recently in Cureus.. The patient ...

"We have identified a group of patients with a necrotizing myopathy and a novel anti-200/100 autoantibody specificity," said Dr. Andrew Mammen, M.D., Ph.D., and lead author of the study.

Necrotizing myopathy: muscle weakness. Polymyalgia rheumatica occurs more commonly in older persons and preferentially affects the proximal muscles with markedly elevated measures of inflammation ...