A dermatopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis; An Unexpected Case in Childhood

Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory disease, which usually presents with skin rashes along with muscle weakness. We report a case of JDM in a 10- year-old girl with no skin manifestations presenting with progressive muscle weakness and fatigue. Further laboratory investi...

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Autores principales: HASSAS YEGANEH, Mehrnoush, AHMADI, Pooria, NILIPOUR, Yalda, MOUSAVI KHORSHIDI, Mohadese sadat, SINAEI, Reza, FATHI, Mohammad Reza, SHIARI, Reza
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Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952586
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author HASSAS YEGANEH, Mehrnoush
AHMADI, Pooria
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SHIARI, Reza
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AHMADI, Pooria
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description Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory disease, which usually presents with skin rashes along with muscle weakness. We report a case of JDM in a 10- year-old girl with no skin manifestations presenting with progressive muscle weakness and fatigue. Further laboratory investigations, along with a muscle biopsy, confirmed the diagnosis of adermatopathic JDM. The patient was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, corticosteroids, methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, pamidronate, and rituximab. Following treatment, patients’ symptoms subsided, and she gained normal muscular strength over a year.
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spelling pubmed-74680812020-10-01 A dermatopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis; An Unexpected Case in Childhood HASSAS YEGANEH, Mehrnoush AHMADI, Pooria NILIPOUR, Yalda MOUSAVI KHORSHIDI, Mohadese sadat SINAEI, Reza FATHI, Mohammad Reza SHIARI, Reza Iran J Child Neurol Case Report Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory disease, which usually presents with skin rashes along with muscle weakness. We report a case of JDM in a 10- year-old girl with no skin manifestations presenting with progressive muscle weakness and fatigue. Further laboratory investigations, along with a muscle biopsy, confirmed the diagnosis of adermatopathic JDM. The patient was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, corticosteroids, methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, pamidronate, and rituximab. Following treatment, patients’ symptoms subsided, and she gained normal muscular strength over a year. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7468081/ /pubmed/32952586 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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HASSAS YEGANEH, Mehrnoush
AHMADI, Pooria
NILIPOUR, Yalda
MOUSAVI KHORSHIDI, Mohadese sadat
SINAEI, Reza
FATHI, Mohammad Reza
SHIARI, Reza
A dermatopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis; An Unexpected Case in Childhood
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title_full A dermatopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis; An Unexpected Case in Childhood
title_fullStr A dermatopathic Juvenile Dermatomyositis; An Unexpected Case in Childhood
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title_sort dermatopathic juvenile dermatomyositis; an unexpected case in childhood
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952586
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