Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic autoimmune inflammatory disorders characterised by symmetrical skeletal muscle weakness and accelerated fatigue also in the early ...

Registrational ALKIVIA study ongoing evaluating three myositis subsets (immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM), anti-synthetase syndrome (ASyS), and dermatomyositis (DM)); topline results ...

Dr. Felicia Scaggs Huang of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center said: "This year, we've been seeing a rare complication called acute necrotizing encephalitis." Acute necrotizing ...

A number of proteins regulating this process are mutated in human diseases. We focus on centronuclear myopathy due to mutations in the large GTPase dynamin 2 (DNM2), the first protein shown to ...

Myopathy refers to diseases of skeletal muscles (muscles connected to bone). The condition can be acute (meaning sudden, severe, and short-lasting) or chronic (persistent, recurrent, and often ...

The Minnesota Department of Health said the child, who is under 2, was diagnosed with influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalitis. Also known as ANE, the condition causes rapid ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) is a heterogeneous group of autoimmune diseases with various clinical manifestations, treatment responses, and prognoses. According to the clinical ...

Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of inflammatory myopathy. Most patients with IMNM produce anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase or anti-signal-recognition particle ...