Inclusion body myositis in Connecticut - Observations in 35 patients during an 8-year period
Inclusion body myositis in Connecticut - Observations in 35 patients during an 8-year period
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DOI:
10.1097/00005792-200109000-00006
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发表时间:
2001-09-01
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
North, WA
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作者:
Felice, KJ;North, WA
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM) is the most common acquired myopathy in patients older than 50 years (24, 30). Since the earliest pathologic descriptions, much has been learned about the clinical and etiopathologic features of this disorder (2, 9). Clinically, most patients present to their physicians following a period of slowly progressive limb weakness. The predominant sites of weakness and atrophy at onset include the quadriceps, long finger flexors, and ankle extensors (23, 24). The diagnosis of IBM is established histologically by the findings of an inflammatory myopathy associated with rimmed vacuoles and tubulofilamentous inclusions (15). Other pathologic features include abnormal accumulations of β-amyloid and its precursor proteins, hyperphosphorylated tau, α1-antichymotrypsin, apolipoprotein E, ubiquitin, and prion protein (2, 29). Initially, IBM was characterized and treated as a primary inflammatory myopathy; however, the accumulation of abnormal cellular proteins and the refractoriness of the disease symptoms to the various immunotherapies have raised the possibility that IBM is a degenerative disease of muscle (29).Since the first clinicopathologic description of IBM in 1967 (9), several series describing the clinical and pathologic features of IBM have been reported (1, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 26). However, large regional studies reporting the prevalence rate, referral patterns, specific distribution of muscle weakness at presentation, and rate of disease progression have generally been lacking. In the present study we examine these features retrospectively in a series of patients with IBM seen in a regional referral center in Connecticut over 8 years.