Ryan Malcolm Hum, James B Lilleker, Janine A Lamb, Alexander G S Oldroyd, Guochun Wang, Lucy R Wedderburn, Louise P Diederichsen, Jens Schmidt, Maria Giovanna Danieli, Paula Oakley, Zoltan Griger, Thuy Nguyen Thi Phuong, Chanakya Kodishala, Monica Vazquez-Del Mercado, Helena Andersson, Boel De Paepe, Jan L De Bleecker, Britta Maurer, Liza McCann, Nicolo Pipitone, Neil McHugh, Robert Paul New, William E Ollier, Niels Steen Krogh, Jiri Vencovsky, Ingrid E Lundberg, Hector Chinoy
OBJECTIVES: To compare clinical characteristics, including the frequency of cutaneous, extramuscular manifestations, and malignancy, between adults with anti-synthetase syndrome (ASyS) and dermatomyositis (DM). METHODS: Using data regarding adults from the MYONET registry, a cohort of DM patients with anti-Mi2/-TIF1ɣ/-NXP2/-SAE/-MDA5 autoantibodies, and a cohort of ASyS patients with anti-tRNA synthetase autoantibodies (anti-Jo1/-PL7/-PL12/-OJ/-EJ/-Zo/-KS) were identified...
September 12, 2023: Rheumatology