A fatal presentation of dermatomyositis.

Subcutaneous Emphysema, Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax in a Patient with Dermatomyositis

Introduction:Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, and subcutaneous emphysema are rare, but serious complications of inflammatory myopathies and occur more commonly in DM than PM. complications of dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM), both of which can be fatal. Case Report:A 20-year-old woman was admitted with neck pain, dyspnea, cough, and fever. She had been diagnosed with derma...

Acute lyme infection presenting with amyopathic dermatomyositis and rapidly fatal interstitial pulmonary fibrosis: a case report

INTRODUCTION Dermatomyositis has been described in the setting of lyme infection in only nine previous case reports. Although lyme disease is known to induce typical clinical findings that are observed in various collagen vascular diseases, to our knowledge, we believe that our case is the first presentation of acute lyme disease associated with amyopathic dermatomyositis, which was then follow...

Reticulate Acropigmentation of Kitamura and Nevus of Ito.

6. Rodero Prieto R, Camacho Lovillo MS, Lirola Cruz MJ. Generalized edema as a form of presentation of juvenile dermatomyositis. An Pediatr (Barc). 2013;79:271--2. 7. Zedan M, El-Ayouty M, Abdel-Hady H, Shouman B, El-Assmy M, Fouda A. Anasarca: Not a nephrotic syndrome but dermatomyositis. Eur J Pediatr. 2008;167:831--4. 8. Rafailidis PI, Kapaskelis A, Falagas ME. Periorbital and facial swellin...

Pathogenesis of heart block in a fatal case of dermatomyositis.

Approximately 70% of patients with dermatomyositis have evidence of cardiac damage; in one third of cases this affects principally or solely the conduction tissue. In infants similar histological lesions have been associated with a maternal autoantibody, anti-Ro, that crosses the placenta and produces congenital heart block. Anti-Ro antibody was detected in a fatal case of dermatomyositis with ...

Fatal vascular occlusion in juvenile dermatomyositis.