dermatomyositis in English

noun
1
inflammation of the skin and underlying muscle tissue, involving degeneration of collagen, discoloration, and swelling, typically occurring as an autoimmune condition or associated with internal cancer.
Rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, dermatomyositis , and scleroderma are thought to be autoimmune diseases.

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1. Dermatomyositis is an Autoimmune disorder that primarily affects muscles, but it also affects the skin

2. Nemaline-structures seen in muscular dystrophy, dermatomyositis, and atypical neuromuscular disease with myxoviruslike inclusions are described.

3. Similarly, Antinuclear antibodies can be present in patients with scleroderma, mixed connective tissue disease, and dermatomyositis or polymyositis

4. Examples of Connective tissue diseases include rheumatoid arthritis , lupus , polymyositis / dermatomyositis , Churg-Strauss syndrome , scleroderma , and Marfan syndrome .

5. Nine cases of scleroderma (systemic sclerosis 7, morphea 2) and 4 cases of dermatomyositis, all in the active phase, were examined.

6. Trauma (including head trauma and including surgery) and other striated muscle diseases, including dystrophy, dermatomyositis, trichinosis, polymyositis, and gangrene cause Ast increases.

7. Muscle Aches and pains can also be caused by serious diseases, disorders and conditions, such as fibromyalgia, infection and dermatomyositis, which is an inflammatory muscle disease

8. These Autoantibodies are rarely found in other diseases, so their presence in the patient’s blood can confirm the diagnosis of dermatomyositis, polymyositis, necrotizing myopathy, or sporadic inclusion body myositis

9. Patients of clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis associated with rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia (CADM-RFIP) with positive anti-MDA5 antibody usually presents rapid deterioration and traditional therapy such as cyclophosphamide combined with high-dose prednisone pulse therapy shows no clear benefit At whiles.

10. Thus the compound of general formula [1] is useful in the treatment and prevention of autoimmune diseases fundamentally caused by immunopathy or abnormally accelerated cell adhesion, for example, chronic rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, sclerema, mixed connective tissue disease, polyarteritis nodosa, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, Sjögren's syndrome, Behcet's disease, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diabetes, Hashimoto's disease, psoriasis, primary myxedema, pernicious anemia, serious adynamia, ulcerative colitis, chronic active hepatitis, autoimmune hemolytic anemia and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.