Inflammatory bowel disease and myositis

A patient with Crohn's disease developed proximal muscle weakness, increased serum creatine phosphokinase activity and electromyographic abnormalities. A muscle biopsy was non-diagnostic. Although rare, myositis should be included in the differential diagnosis of muscle weakness in patients wit...

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Published in:Clinical rheumatology 1999-01, Vol.18 (3), p.261-263
Main Authors: Braun-Moscovici, Y, Schapira, D, Balbir-Gurman, A, Nahir, A M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biopsy
Creatine
Creatine kinase
Creatine Kinase - blood
Crohn Disease - blood
Crohn Disease - complications
Crohn Disease - drug therapy
Crohn Disease - pathology
Crohn's disease
Differential diagnosis
Electromyography
Family Health
Female
Humans
Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Inflammatory diseases
Intestine
Mesalamine - therapeutic use
Middle Aged
Muscles - physiopathology
Musculoskeletal diseases
Myositis
Myositis - etiology
Myositis - pathology
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Summary:A patient with Crohn's disease developed proximal muscle weakness, increased serum creatine phosphokinase activity and electromyographic abnormalities. A muscle biopsy was non-diagnostic. Although rare, myositis should be included in the differential diagnosis of muscle weakness in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
ISSN:0770-3198
1434-9949
DOI:10.1007/s100670050097