Iago Pinal-Fernandez, Maria Casal-Dominguez, John A Carrino, Arash H Lahouti, Pari Basharat, Jemima Albayda, Julie J Paik, Shivani Ahlawat, Sonye K Danoff, Thomas E Lloyd, Andrew L Mammen, Lisa Christopher-Stine
OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to define the pattern of muscle involvement in patients with immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM) relative to those with other inflammatory myopathies and to compare patients with IMNM with different autoantibodies. METHODS: All Johns Hopkins Myositis Longitudinal Cohort subjects with a thigh MRI (tMRI) who fulfilled criteria for IMNM, dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM) or clinically amyopathic DM (CADM) were included in the study...
April 2017: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases