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Inflammatory myopathy associated with anti-mitochondrial antibodies: A distinct phenotype with cardiac involvement.
Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Feb 2018
Albayda Jemima, Khan Aamna, Casciola-Rosen Livia, Corse Andrea M, Paik Julie J, Christopher-Stine Lisa
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: In the context of clinical evaluations performed on our prospective myositis cohort, we noted a striking association of severe cardiac disease in myositis patients with anti-mitochondrial antibodies. We sought to review all cases of anti-mitochondrial antibody (AMA) associated myositis in our cohort to describe the clinical features of this disease subset. METHODS: We identified 7 patients with...
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