Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy: A Rare Variant of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

• Main Authors: Noman Ahmed Jang Khan MD (Author), Shaza Khalid MD (Author), Saad Ullah MD (Author), Muhammad Umair Malik MD (Author), Samer Makhoul MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are an unusual group of myopathies with annual incidence of 1 in 100 000 people in the United States. Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy comprises only 16% of this group. It usually presents with severe proximal weakness, lower extremity weakness, and severe fatigue w...