🚨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.