Two patients in the same family with anti-ARS antibody-associated myositis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 699-700

  Ozaki, Takashi ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Hosono, Yuji ^b   Nakashima, Ran ^b   Mimori, Tsuneyo ^b   Takahashi, Yuko ^a   Kaneko, Hiroshi ^a   Kano, Toshikazu ^a   Mimori, Akio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE ANTIBODY; ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTHRALGIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRACKLE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HOME OXYGEN THERAPY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MYOSITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MYOSITIS;

EID: 84903726226     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14397595.2013.844299     Document Type: Letter

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