Discover how antisynthetase autoantibodies impair enzyme function in muscle cells, driving inflammation and myositis, as ...

aDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Integrated Hospital Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA bDepartment of Rheumatologic and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic, ...

Malignancy (ever) occurred in 13%, most commonly in DM (20%, OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.65 to 2.57, p<0.001). ILD occurred in 30%, most frequently in antisynthetase syndrome (71%, OR 10.7, 95% CI 8.6 to 13.4, ...

Four months previously she had been diagnosed with polymyositis associated antisynthetase syndrome, treated with 60 mg/day prednisone which was gradually tapered down to 20 mg/day by the time of ...

Nephrotic syndrome isn’t a disease. It’s a group of symptoms that can appear if your kidneys aren’t working right. You might have a condition that affects only your kidneys. Doctors call ...

Munchausen syndrome is a factitious disorder, a mental health disorder in which a person repeatedly and deliberately acts as if they have a physical or mental illness when they are not really sick.

1 A number of recent case reports and case series in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, antisynthetase syndrome, and systemic sclerosis have fuelled substantial ...

Myositis is classified into several forms, including Dermatomyositis (DM), Polymyositis (PM), Necrotizing myopathy (NM), Inclusion body myositis (IBM), Juvenile forms of myositis (JM), and ...