NOUN
- myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals
How To Use dermatomyositis In A Sentence
- Because a few days ago they linked to WebMD's symptom checker, which is an arbitrary mix of commonsense medicine and diseases lifted from the Hypochondriac Hall of Fame that back pain could be a muscle strain... or dermatomyositis... or kidney cancer! Archive 2007-07-01
- No luck, they all considered Sam's dermatomyositis a pre-existing condition. James Glave: Private Health Care is Stranding U.S. Expats Overseas
- Objective: To explore the clinical features of patients with polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) to provide evidence for clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognostic evaluation.
- It is important to measure muscle enzymes and 24-hours urine creatine for the evaluation of internal organ involvement, treatment and prognosis in dermatomyositis.
- Other diseases related to RA that may cause pulmonary fibrosis are systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis and dermatomyositis, Sjogren's syndrome, scleroderma and others.
- Objective: To investigate the status of activation and apoptosis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in patients with polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM).
- Six were treated for rheumatoid, three for Crohn's disease, one for psoriatic arthritis, one for dermatomyositis and one for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
- Strong internal medical treatments that are necessary to control the autoimmune features of dermatomyositis.
- In addition to inflammatory infiltration and destruction of muscle, patients with dermatomyositis or polymyositis may have involvement of other organ systems.
- Rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, dermatomyositis, and scleroderma are thought to be autoimmune diseases.