Myopathies are a group of disorders that are characterized by a primary structural or functional impairment of the skeletal muscle. These diseases usually affect muscles without involving the nervous ...

Quadriceps-sparing myopathy is the name formerly used for the commonest clinical condition among a group of syndromes called the hereditary inclusion body myopathies (HIBM). They are characterized by ...

Recently, Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, opened up about his daughters’ battle with a rare neuromuscular disorder called Nemaline Myopathy. This disorder affects skeletal muscles, leading to ...

Madison, WI - Myopathy associated with statin use is generally self-limiting, with a benign clinical outcome, a new retrospective observational analysis shows [ 1]. Dr Karen E Hansen (University of ...

The different autoimmune myopathies—for example, dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies (IMNM)—have unique muscle biopsy findings, but they also share specific ...

FAERS database collects adverse events submitted by pharmaceutical companies, clinicians, and patients. Concomitant use of statins and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP4-is) does not appear to ...

Can We Differentiate Those Who Have the Self-limited Form of Statin Myopathy From Those Who Have the Immune-Mediated Variety? In our experience, most patients with autoimmune statin myopathy had ...

When a rope is continuously rubbed against a stone, the friction wears away the fibres until the rope finally breaks. Think of the rope as muscle and the rubbing as life. As life goes on, my muscles ...

Debra Bacchi, 47, is a myopathic muscular therapist, a type of massage which addresses pain. She lived in Lake Tahoe for 14 years, and now lives in Gardnerville. She has her own practice, as well as ...

The myopathies are neuromuscular disorders in which the primary symptom is muscle weakness due to dysfunction of muscle fiber. Other symptoms of myopathy can include include muscle cramps, stiffness, ...