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- Title
Rare meets rarer: anti-synthetase syndrome in a patient with facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy.
- Authors
Valor-Méndez, Larissa; Manger, Bernhard; Winterholler, Martin; Schett, Georg; Türk, Mattias; Knitza, Johannes
- Abstract
The article presents a rare case of a 74-year-old Caucasian man with a history of genetically confirmed facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy type-1 (FSHD1) diagnosed at the age of 54 years. Topics discussed include findings on physical examination, characteristics of FSHD, and patient's characteristics that led to the anti-synthetase syndrome (ASS) diagnosis.
- Subjects
THERAPEUTIC use of glucocorticoids; RITUXIMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; ANTISYNTHETASE syndrome; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; TREATMENT effectiveness; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL muscular dystrophy; RARE diseases; EVALUATION
- Publication
Rheumatology, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 12, pe368
- ISSN
1462-0324
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rheumatology/keac328