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SUBMITTER: Lilleker J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4959629 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lilleker James J Murphy Sean S Cooper Robert R
Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease 20160619 4
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a rare and heterogeneous group of acquired autoimmune muscle disorders, often referred to as 'myositis'. Clinical assessment, together with muscle biopsy findings and autoantibody status are key factors to consider when making a diagnosis of IIM, and in stratification of the 'IIM spectrum' into disease subgroups. Treatment stratified according to serotype (and in the future, likely also genotype) is increasingly being used to take account of the h ...[more]