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Soluble IL-2 receptor: a biomarker for assessing myositis activity.

Anne TournadreJean-Jacques DubostMartin SoubrierMarc RuivardPierre SouteyrandJeannot SchmidtPierre ClavelouArlette TridonJean-Michel Ristori
Published in: Disease markers (2014)
Serum sIL-2R level could be useful to distinguish disease exacerbation from damage in IM, especially in patients with persistent elevated CK levels when a clinical muscular worsening is noted. For discrimination of the disease activity, CK testing requires the use of a different threshold than the upper limit of the normal.
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