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Myopathy associated with anti-signal recognition peptide antibodies: clinical heterogeneity contrasts with stereotyped histopathology.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Mar 2007
Dimitri Dalia, Andre Chantal, Roucoules Jacques, Hosseini Hassan, Humbel René-Louis, Authier François-Jérôme
Abstract excerpt
We report three patients with anti-signal recognition particle antibodies who had different presenting clinical pictures, mimicking acute polymyositis, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, and acute rhabdomyolysis. Muscle biopsies typically showed necrotizing myopathy with little or no inflammation and deposits of membrane attack complex (C5b-9) in endomysial capillaries. The clinical course was severe in two patients...
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