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Peripheral Nerve Neurologist and Pathologist @MayoClinic • @PNSociety1 Education Committee • Alum @ufrj @MayoNeuroRes @MayoNeuroFellow • 🇧🇷
Dec 2 7 tweets 2 min read
🚨Check out our latest work on vasculitic myopathy @GreenJournal! A fantastic collaboration between @MayoClinicNeuro and #MayoRheum. Thank you, @ElieNaddaf3, for the incredible mentorship, and @MdWarrington and #MattKoster for the help. Breakdown ⬇️ 1/7
neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.121… • We report 25 patients vasculitic myopathy

• Primary systemic Vasculitis: 40% (ANCA vasculitides most common)

• Secondary systemic vasculitis: 48% (RA most common)

• Nonsystemic vasculitic myopathy: 12%

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May 20, 2020 11 tweets 7 min read
Feels so good to be back to #Neurology. Today I had the pleasure to give #Neurologymorningreport on Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy #NAM. #MedTwitter follow below a few pearls I shared with the team @ErsidaBuraniqi @nzalewski2. THREAD. #NAM is an autoimmune myopathy characterized by severe proximal weakness, myofiber necrosis with minimal or no inflammatory infiltrates on muscle biopsy, and infrequent extra-muscular involvement.