Abstracts tagged "dermatomyositis and polymyositis"

Abstract Number: 2308 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Thigh Muscle MRI Reveals Extensive Muscle Edema and Early Fatty Replacement in Patients with Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
Iago Pinal-Fernandez¹, Maria Casal-Dominguez², John A. Carrino³, Arash Lahoutiharahdashti², Pari Basharat⁴, Jemima Albayda², Julie J. Paik², Shivani Ahlawat⁵, Sonye K. Danoff⁶, Thomas E. Lloyd⁷, Andrew Mammen⁸ and Lisa Christopher-Stine⁶, ¹Muscle Diseases Unit, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Rheumatology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Neurology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁸National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to define the pattern of muscle involvement in patients with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM). Methods: All Johns Hopkins…
Abstract Number: 1268 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Study of Autoantibodies in a cohort of Mexican patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Yelitza Gonzalez-Bello¹, Miguel Angel Ortiz-Villalvazo², Ignacio Garcia-Valladares¹, Gabriel Medrano-Ramírez³, José E. Navarro-Zarza⁴, Lilia Andrade-Ortega⁵, Arnulfo Nava-Zavala⁶, Gerardo Orozco-Barocio¹, Marco Maradiaga-Ceceña⁷, Marvin Fritzler⁸ and Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre⁹, ¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, ²Internal Medicine, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico, ³Rheumatology, Hospital General de Mexico de la Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital General de Chilpancingo, Chilpancingo, Gro., Mexico, ⁵Rheumatology, CMN 20 Noviembre ISSSTE, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital General de Culiacan de la Secretaría de Salud, Culiacan, Sin., Mexico, ⁸Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁹Immunology and Rheumatology, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico
Background/Purpose Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of autoimmune disorders characterized by muscle inflammation, progressive weakness with a combination of clinical, electromyography and laboratory…