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Patient Perspectives of the Manifestations and Treatment of Anti-MDA5 Antibody-Positive Dermatomyositis: An Observational Survey.

Timothy KanieckiBenita MoyersManuel LubinusYuan-Pai HuLynn WilsonStephen MooreJerry WilliamsLisa Christopher-Stine
Published in: The Journal of rheumatology (2024)
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders classically characterized by proximal skeletal muscle inflammation leading to weakness, but they often possess additional systemic manifestations such as cutaneous, pulmonary, and articular disease. 1 Although originally dichotomized as either dermatomyositis (DM) or polymyositis, the discovery of new myositis-specific antibodies (MSA) and myositis-associated antibodies has led to the delineation of more refined IIM patient subgroups.
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