Autoimmune statin-induced myopathy: a case report

A 58-year-old woman with a history of statin use presented with a 4-month history of progressive weakness of both shoulders and thighs. Laboratory and electromyography testing confirmed the presence of generalized proximal myopathy and ruled out connective tissue disease, malignancy, or active viral...

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Autores principales: Young, Jonathan B., Ghobrial, Ibrahim I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26333863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.28374
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description A 58-year-old woman with a history of statin use presented with a 4-month history of progressive weakness of both shoulders and thighs. Laboratory and electromyography testing confirmed the presence of generalized proximal myopathy and ruled out connective tissue disease, malignancy, or active viral infection. Muscle biopsy was consistent with necrotizing autoimmune myopathy.
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spelling pubmed-45582862015-09-29 Autoimmune statin-induced myopathy: a case report Young, Jonathan B. Ghobrial, Ibrahim I. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report A 58-year-old woman with a history of statin use presented with a 4-month history of progressive weakness of both shoulders and thighs. Laboratory and electromyography testing confirmed the presence of generalized proximal myopathy and ruled out connective tissue disease, malignancy, or active viral infection. Muscle biopsy was consistent with necrotizing autoimmune myopathy. Co-Action Publishing 2015-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4558286/ /pubmed/26333863 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.28374 Text en © 2015 Jonathan B. Young and Ibrahim I. Ghobrial http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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