eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | dermatomyositis |
| Comorbidity | C0085655|polymyositis |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 24587064 | polymyositis (pm), together with dermatomyositis, belongs to idiopathic inflammatory myositis, which represents a heterogeneous group of autoimmune systemic diseases characterized by chronic muscle weakness and inflammatory cell infiltrates in skeletal muscle [7]. |
| PubMedID- 24265670 | To date, no cases were reported in which rapamycin was used to treat polymyositis, nevertheless, two cases of refractory dermatomyositis treated by rapamycin with good results have been published [33], [34], suggesting that the drug could have a beneficial effect in patient affected by autoimmune myositis. |
| PubMedID- 20392291 | Distinct muscle expression of type 1 interferon-inducible genes in dermatomyositis (dm) compared with polymyositis (pm) and inclusion body myositis (ibm). |
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