Title: Infections and Polymyositis-Dermatomyositis
Abstract: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic diseases classified within the connective tissue diseases (CTDs). The term “inflammatory myopathy” is often used interchangeably with the term myositis. They represent a diverse group of diseases of unknown cause with a variety of clinical manifestations, in which the muscle injury results from inflammation. Myositis is a relatively rare but increasingly recognized disease. Sometimes, an early recognization and a correct classification of the different subsets of myositis are difficult because in the beginning, the disease could be clinically undefined. Late diagnosis and mistaken classification of myositis postpone the start of treatment leading to a worse prognosis. From a clinicopathologic perspective, the IIM fall into six major categories: dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM), overlap syndromes, cancer-associated myositis, and other forms including rare focal and diffuse variants.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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