Dermatomyositis a Diagnositic Delimma: An Interesting Case Series and Review of Literature

Abstract

Dermatomyositis is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with characteristic cutaneous findings that occur in children and adults. We report a case series of dermatomyositis rare disease and the dilemma associated with the diagnosis. All the three cases we discussed were difficult to diagnose and had diagnostic dilemma. This case series highlights the investigation required to diagnose such disease. The main aim of the article is to create awareness among the orthopaedicians to have clinical suspicion of dermamtomyositis in cases of diffuse dystrophic calcification.

Sexual function in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: a cross-sectional study

“…of our patients was higher [53.1 (13.5) vs 32.7 (5.3)] [ 13 ]. Our cohort represents probably more realistically the average population of myositis patients since the disease usually manifests between 45 and 60 years of age [ 37 ]. Since those women with IIM who refused to participate in our study were even older and had worse MMT-8 scores compared with the participants in the female IIM cohort, and given the association of worse sexual function with increasing age (data not shown) and decreasing muscle strength of some proximal muscles, our results can be generalizable to an average female myositis population.…”