| A report in the Internal Medicine Journal describes a patient with chronic caffeine toxicity manifesting as hypokalaemic myopathy. |
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| Frank rickets or osteomalacic myopathy are only occasionally seen, usually in those already predisposed to metabolic bone disease. |
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| A study on osteomalacic myopathy in women found that muscle strength returned to normal after six months' treatment. |
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| An antisynthetase antibody, when positive, may help confirm the presence of an inflammatory myopathy. |
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| Exercise-induced muscle oxidative stress may be involved in the myopathy associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. |
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| It's a rare form of muscular dystrophy called disautonomic myocondrial myopathy. |
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| Electrodiagnostic assessments such as needle electromyography and nerve conduction studies are useful in differentiating peripheral neuropathy from radiculopathy or myopathy. |
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| We present a 6-year-old girl with premature aging associated with mild myopathy, displaying muscle weakness, joint contractures and hyporeflexia. |
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| Over 2 years, she developed features of Cushing's syndrome with proximal myopathy, osteopenia, hypertension, depressive psychosis, and cushingoid appearance. |
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| The risk of myopathy is increased by high levels of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitory activity in plasma. |
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| More recently, researchers have been able to repair human stem cells of patients affected by Duchenne myopathy. |
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| Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders: Rare reports of myopathy have also been observed. |
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| The agency said the 80-milligram dose caused a potentially severe muscle disease, called myopathy, especially in the first year of taking the medication. |
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| People who feel trapped experience capture myopathy, the same way that animals do. |
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| A prolonged chase will stress the animal and can lead to capture myopathy, a fatal condition due to severe muscle and kidney damage. |
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| Vacuolar myopathy associated with chloroquine, lupus erythematosus and thymoma. |
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| A rare side effect called myopathy, characterized by muscle degeneration, has been associated with a mutation in a gene involved in mediating liver uptake of statins. |
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| The third risk is that statins can definitely cause a condition called myopathy which is characterised by muscle pain and evidence of muscle damage on blood tests. |
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| One in 10,000 people per year will develop myopathy as a result of this. |
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| All patients starting therapy with lovastatin, or whose dose of lovastatin is being increased, should be advised of the risk of myopathy and told to report promptly any unexplained muscle pain, tenderness or weakness. |
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| In two 6-month controlled clinical studies, there was one case of myopathy among 436 patients taking 40 mg and 5 cases among 669 patients taking 80 mg. |
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| How did you become interested in myotubular myopathy? |
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| The Johns Hopkins group reported that muscle biopsies from 38 of 225 patients with myopathy showed myofiber necrosis without prominent inflammation. |
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| Common neurological complications of untreated Graves' disease include cognitive dysfunction, tremor, ophthalmopathy, myopathy and polyneuropathy. |
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| Statin-Induced Myopathy is Mediated by Isoprenoid Depletion and is Independent of Serum Cholesterol Levels Abstract 13907, Abstract Poster Session, Sunday, Nov. |
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