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Computer-assisted analysis of 153 patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis.
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Recommended diagnostic criteria for paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
Francesc Graus,Jean Yves Delattre,Jean-Christophe Antoine,Josep Dalmau,Bruno Giometto,Wolfgang Grisold,J. Honnorat,P. A. E. Sillevis Smitt,Ch Vedeler,Jan J.G.M. Verschuuren,Angela Vincent,Raymond Voltz +11 more
TL;DR: An international panel of neurologists interested in PNS recommended new criteria for those in whom no clinical consensus was reached in the past and defined “classical” syndrome and onconeural antibody as “well characterised”.
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Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion-Body Myositis
TL;DR: The evolution over the past 10 years of rather well defined clinical, demographic, histologic, and immunopathological criteria and the identification of inclusion-body myositis as a distinct type of polymyositis now means the inflammatory myopathies now are considered to be pathogenetically similar.
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Autoantibodies to nuclear antigens (ANA): their immunobiology and medicine.
TL;DR: Autoantibodies to nuclear antigens (ANAs) have assumed an important place in the diagnostic armamentarium of the clinician because of distinct profiles of ANAs in different diseases.
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Rituximab in the Treatment of Refractory Adult and Juvenile Dermatomyositis and Adult Polymyositis: A Randomized, Placebo-phase Trial
Chester V. Oddis,Ann M. Reed,Rohit Aggarwal,Lisa G. Rider,Dana P. Ascherman,Marc C. Levesque,Richard J. Barohn,Brian M. Feldman,Michael O. Harris-Love,Diane Koontz,Noreen Fertig,Stephanie S. Kelley,Sherrie L. Pryber,Frederick W. Miller,Howard E. Rockette +14 more
TL;DR: Although there were no significant differences in the 2 treatment arms for the primary and secondary end points, 83% of adult and juvenile myositis patients with refractory disease met the DOI, and individual CSMs improved in both groups throughout the 44-week trial.
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Causes of venous ulceration: a new hypothesis
TL;DR: A new hypothesis linking these two findings proposes that the trapped while cells occlude the capillaries and result in ischaemia of the skin of the leg.