Contracturing granulomatous myositis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report.

Contractures Granulomas Myositis

Journal

Neuromuscular disorders : NMD
ISSN: 1873-2364
Titre abrégé: Neuromuscul Disord
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9111470

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 07 08 2023
revised: 23 12 2023
accepted: 08 01 2024
medline: 14 2 2024
pubmed: 14 2 2024
entrez: 13 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Contracturing granulomatous myositis is a rare myopathy in which patients present with flexion contractures of the upper limbs in addition to slowly progressive muscle weakness and pain. Whether it represents a distinct nosological entity remains a point of discussion. We present a patient with isolated granulomatous disease of the muscle that responded very well to intravenous immunoglobulins after treatment failure of corticosteroids and methotrexate.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38350265
pii: S0960-8966(24)00001-4
doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2024.01.002
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

38-41

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Willem De Ridder (W)

Translational Neurosciences and Peripheral Neuropathy Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Laboratory of Neuromuscular Pathology, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Reference Centre, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.

Laurens Van Herck (L)

Department of Neurology, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis, Aalst, Belgium.

Gert Cypers (G)

Department of Neurology, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis, Aalst, Belgium.

Isabelle Ravelingien (I)

Department of Rheumatology, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis, Aalst, Belgium.

Jonathan Baets (J)

Translational Neurosciences and Peripheral Neuropathy Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Laboratory of Neuromuscular Pathology, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Reference Centre, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: jonathan.baets@uantwerpen.be.

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