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INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY
• progressive prox muscle weakness
• Dysphagia
• Myalgia
• Elevated CK
• Myopathic EMG
• Muscle Biopsy – inflammatory
Biopsy
important characteristic of inflammation
infiltration of different cells – neutrophils,
lymphocytes
DERMATO/POLYMYOSITIS
• Dx: progressive proximal muscle weakness
• Autoimmune disorder
• 3F:1M
• Skin lesions
• 40 y/o and above
• progressive proximal muscle weakness
• Raynauds phenomenon
• Dysphagia
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• Periodic paralysis
• Myasthenia Gravis
• Muscle dystrophy inheritance
• Duchenne
• Beckers
• Limb-girdle