I am studying Laing Distal Myopathy (MPD1), an inherited condition that causes progressive muscle weakness in the extremities and has no cure. MPD1 is caused by mutations in β-myosin, the primary ...
PhD defence of Mrs Ilaria Cocchiararo. On the 6 th of December 2024, Mrs Ilaria Cocchiararo will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Investigating the pathomechanisms unde ...
SE, a global immunology company committed to improving the lives of people suffering from severe autoimmune diseases, announced the decision to continue development of efgartigimod subcutaneous (SC) ...
It is the replacement of myofibers by fibrofatty infiltration that effectively reduces myofiber mass and produces muscle weakness. The muscular dystrophies are a subclass of the myopathies ...
Often dark urine is seen because the damaged muscle cells release the pigment myoglobin, which can damage the kidneys. Atypical myopathy has a fatality rate of around 70% so should always be ...
Therapeutic options for patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are limited ... that regulates the structure and function of muscle filaments. “C-protein-induced myositis [CIM] is ...
AMRA’s success in demonstrating the utility of these fat-referenced MRI-based muscle composition biomarkers in FSHD and now in inflammatory myopathies such as sIBM is a testament to the rigor ...