Autoantibody positivity rates were lower in people with dermatomyositis who used immunostimulatory herbs before disease onset ...

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 ...

In a study, patients with dermatomyositis who used immunostimulatory herbs before symptom onset showed significantly lower rates of myositis-specific, myositis-associated, and antinuclear ...

Inflammatory myopathies are a group of rare diseases that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness due to chronic skeletal muscle inflammation. Classification of these rare diseases is based ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) comprise a group of inflammatory disorders in which there is chronic inflammation of skeletal muscle. This is then followed by muscle weakness. One type of ...

Active rash, ILD, and elevated NLR are factors associated with greater in-hospital morality in patients with dermatomyositis.

Antibody testing is likely to play an increasingly important role in the practice of rheumatology. The classification of lupus is enabled by antinuclear antibodies, as is rheumatoid arthritis (RA), by ...