Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Understanding which autoantibodies are present in patients with myositis can help with both ...

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) presents with a characteristic clinical phenotype of slow-onset weakness and atrophy, affecting proximal and distal limb muscles and facial and pharyngeal ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, known collectively as myositis, are chronic diseases that cause disability, mainly from muscle weakness, despite the use of immunosuppressive therapies. An improved ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During an interview on CBS Saturday Morning on Feb. 23, musician Peter Frampton revealed that he had been ...

Q: I started to develop weakness that made it hard for me to get out of a chair. My doctor thinks it may be polymyositis and referred me to a specialist. What is this disease? A: Polymyositis (PM) is ...

Nearly one-third of PM/DM patients are readmitted within 180 days. Common causes of readmission include PM exacerbations and sepsis. Female patients, obese patients, patients with comorbid conditions, ...

DEAR DR. GOTT: Ive been diagnosed with polymyositis and am being treated with prednisone and hormones (to prevent osteoporosis). The old books in my library indicate a negative prognosis: 25 percent ...

Long-term follow-up into adulthood among patients diagnosed with juvenile myositis showed generally favorable outcomes, researchers said, despite finding that almost all had developed disease-related ...