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20383652

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-8
pubmed:abstractText
A 72-year-old man who had been diagnosed with polymyositis (PM) was admitted to our hospital for pneumonia with exacerbation of muscle weakness, elevation of muscle enzymes, and positive magnetic resonance imaging findings. The patient had been refractory to cyclosporine A or azathioprine and hoped to avoid administration of high-dose steroids; IV immunoglobulin (IVIG) was therefore administered after improvement of the pneumonia. Two weeks after the IVIG therapy, muscle test scores, activities of daily living, and muscle enzymes were drastically improved. Twenty months after IVIG, no relapse of PM was observed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1439-7609
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
496-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Long-term efficacy of intravenously administered immunoglobulin in a case of polymyositis with limited application of steroid therapy.
pubmed:affiliation
Unit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. nhideki@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports