ATLANTA—Rheumatologists and health professionals reviewed the latest information on diagnosing and treating inflammatory myopathies during the ACR Clinical Symposium, “Inflammatory Myopathy Update,” here at the 2010 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting. [Editor’s Note: This session was recorded and is available via ACR SessionSelect at www.rheumatology.org.] The session’s three presentations focused on modalities to diagnose inflammatory myopathy, the role of autoantibodies in myositis, and exercise intervention.
Diagnosing Inflammatory Myopathy
John A. Carrino, MD, MPH, associate professor of radiology and orthopaedic surgery and section chief of musculoskeletal radiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, started the session by reviewing some of the clinical features that usually point to myositis, including Gottron’s papules, the body symmetry of the disorder, proximal limb and truncal weakness, Raynaud’s disease, arthritis, and lung disease. He also pointed out clinical features that typically lead away from a myositis diagnosis, such as family history, weakness related to exercise and eating, cranial nerve involvement, muscle cramping, and early atrophy or hypertrophy.
While polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion body myositis are most commonly considered with inflammatory myopathy, he noted that there are a host of other emerging myopathies, such as necrotizing myopathy, giant cell myositis, eosinophilic myositis, granulomatous myositis, and others.
Patricia Dupuis says
August 15, 2015 at 10:03 amI like learning more about my disease’s and how best to cope with them there was a time I thought I was the only one in Arkansas that had myositis but I am sure there are more than just me. Please keep up the research to help us I have PM and DM and other overlapping disease’s and have suffered for over 20 yrs with this. Thank you !
Jaqaid says
October 17, 2017 at 10:42 pmHi, my father has diagnosis inflammatory myopathy he is diabetic +cardiac patient . Is this disease is dangerous or not?? And what are the treatments for this disease
Keri Losavio says
October 18, 2017 at 6:49 pmWe cannot provide medical advice in this forum. If you need to find a rheumatologist in your area, please use the tool on the ACR’s website.
MUDSER says
November 8, 2018 at 6:27 amMetabolic mayophty I am very ILL and didn’t confirm Dr of this disease.Plz Recommend me Medicine for this disease & What are the best treatment of this disease.Thanks