Polymyositis
Polymyositis is a connective tissue disease that triggers inflammation and muscular weakness. The cause is unknown, but polymyositis is thought to be an autoimmune disorder, possibly triggered by a viral infection of muscle tissue.
Polymyositis And Dermatomyositis
Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are diffuse, inflammatory myopathies that produce symmetrical weakness of striated muscles, especially proximal muscles of the shoulder, pelvic girdle, neck, and pharynx.
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Polymyositis is a relatively uncommon inflammatory disease that leads to significant muscle weakness.
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Polymyositis: A chronic inflammatory disease of muscle that begins when white blood cells, the immune cells of inflammation, spontaneously invade muscles, especially the muscles closest to the trunk or torso, ...
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Polymyositis is an inflammatory muscle disease of unknown cause. It is often grouped with dermatomyositis, a disease that causes similar symptoms with the addition of skin manifestations.
Polymyositis and dermatomyositis are uncommon systemic rheumatic diseases characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes in the muscles (polymyositis) or in the skin and muscles (dermatomyositis).
Polymyositis is a skeletal muscle disease also known as idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. The cause of this disorder is unknown. It is thought that an autoimmune reaction or a viral infection of the skeletal muscle may cause the disease.
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Polymyositis is an uncommon disease that causes inflammation in your muscles. Doctors also refer to it as a type of connective tissue disease.
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The symptoms of polymyositis tend to gradually appear over a period of time and therefore it can be extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly when they started.
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Polymyositis (PM)
PM inflames and weakens muscles in many parts of the body, especially those closest to the trunk (proximal). Dysphagia is common, as is fatigue and pain in the joints and muscles.
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polymyositis - a chronic disease involving skeletal muscles.
dermatomyositis - a collagen disorder that causes inflammation to the skin, muscles, and subcutaneous tissue often resulting in weakened muscles.
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Introduction
Polymyositis (pol-e-mi-o-SI-tis) is an uncommon disease that causes inflammation in your muscles. It's a type of connective tissue disease.
Polymyositis is a disease of the muscles. It usually affects the muscles closest to the trunk of the body. However, it may affect muscles anywhere in the body. The muscles become inflamed or swollen. This causes pain.
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Polymyositis is a similar condition, but the symptoms occur without a skin rash.
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Polymyositis is an inflammation of the muscles that causes weakness and pain, difficulty moving, and, in some cases, problems breathing and swallowing. If the skin is inflamed too, it's called dermatomyositis.
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An inflammatory disease of the muscles closest to the center of the body. It causes weakness, inability to stand, climb stairs, lift, or reach.
In polymyositis and dermatomyositis, weakness usually affects the muscles near the center of the body, including the muscles of the neck, shoulders and hips. Some patients also have difficulty swallowing.
Women with polymyositis or dermatomyositis who want to become pregnant should discuss their condition and current medications with a rheumatologist or maternal fetal medicine specialist before trying to conceive.
Dalakas MC. Polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion body myositis. In: Kasper DL, et al, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine . 16th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2005: 2540-2545.
DERMATOMYOSITIS & POLYMYOSITIS: Dermatomyositis is a rare, sometimes, deadly disease, in which the muscles and skin become inflamed, causing muscle weakness and rash. Polymyositis is a rare disease in which the muscles become weak and inflamed.
Myositis is a term that describes several illnesses including polymyositis, dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis. Polymyositis involves inflammation of the muscles and can affect many parts of the body.
PM see Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis
PMA see Motor Neurone disease
PMD see Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
PMG see Cortical malformations
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Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are done to assess the level of inflammation that occurs in muscle diseases such as polymyositis.
other myopathiesincluding congenital myopathies, glycogen storage diseases and other metabolic myopathies, polymyositis and dermatomyositis ...
Juvenile dermatomyositis is one of the conditions in a group of conditions called the dermatomyositis/polymyositis complex.
An abnormal EMG result may be a sign of a variety of muscle or nerve disorders, including polymyositis (an inflammatory muscle disease that causes decreased muscle power), ...
Various diseases and syndromes are associated with thymomas, including myasthenia gravis, polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroiditis, ...
An immune system problem that causes swelling (or inflammation) and weakness, such as polymyositis or dermatomyositis.
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Symptoms of such diseases may also include fever, arthritis, muscle aches, rash, and lung and heart problems.
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In one case report, tamponade was described as the first manifestation of dermatopolymyositis.[2]
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Osteoarthritis in a number of areas such as in the neck, around the shoulders and back.
Muscle inflammation (called polymyositis).
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A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon.
through the immune response to the constituents of the cellular nucleus-ribonucleoproteins (RNP) and clinical elements of other colagenoses: systemic erythematous lupus, scleroderma, rheumatoid polyarthritis, dermatomyositis / polymyositis.
" These other diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, polymyositis (inflammation of the muscles), scleroderma (thickening and stiffening of the skin) or poyarteritis nodosa (inflammation of the arteries).
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Pulmonary eosinophilic granuloma (EG), histiocytosis X (HX), or Langerhans cell granulomatosis
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Sjogren's syndrome may occur alone (primary Sjogren's syndrome), or it may be a symptom of other autoimmune/rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, polymyositis and some forms of scleroderma (secondary Sjogren's syndrome).
Rheumatrex A brand name for the chemotherapeutic drug methotrexate, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and certain other rheumatic diseases (especially polymyositisand certain types of vasculitis)
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Next, consider biopsying various organ systems. For instances, a lymph node biopsy may disclose a lymphoma or sarcoidosis. A muscle biopsy may disclose periarteritis nodosa, polymyositis, or trichinella.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Inflammation of the muscle
Muscular dystrophy
Myopathic changes (destruction of the muscle)
Necrosis (tissue death) of muscle
Necrotizing vasculitis
Traumatic muscle damage
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presents as slow progressive weakness and withering away (atrophy) of the muscles (myositis), especially of the arms and legs. Inclusion body myositis frequently is diagnosed when a patient is unresponsive to therapy prescribed for polymyositis.
The secondary, and more serious, form of Raynaud's phenomenon occurs in people who have connective tissue diseases, such as lupus, scleroderma, Sjögren's syndrome, dermatomyositis, polymyositis or rheumatoid arthritis.
disease, and it is present in about one-third of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Raynaud's syndrome also can occur in patients who have other connective tissue diseases, including Sjogren's syndrome, dermatomyositis and polymyositis.
Polycythemia Polycythemia vera Polydactyly Polydipsia Polyhidrosis Polyiterophilia Polymerase chain reaction Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Polymorphism Polymorphonuclear Polymorphonuclear leukocyte Polymox Polymyalgia rheumatica Polymyositis ...
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