Inflammatory myopathy with initial respiratory muscles involvement and rheumatoid arthritis.

[inclusion body myositis]

Inflammatory myopathies comprise a heterogeneous group of subacute , chronic and sometimes acute acquired muscle diseases . The most common inflammatory myopathies seen in practice can be separated into four distinct subsets : polymyositis , dermatomyositis , necrotizing autoimmune myositis and inclusion body myositis . These disorders present as proximal and symmetric muscle weakness but rarely respiratory muscles may also be affected . We report the case of a 39 year -old female with inflammatory myopathy with acute respiratory failure due to alveolar hypoventilation secondary to respiratory muscle dysfunction that required mechanical ventilation . The treatment with steroids , methotrexate and intravenous immune globulin was successful as well as the implementation of non-invasive ventilation as an alternative to endotracheal intubation .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "muscle weakness" symptom

alexander disease

canavan disease

coats disease

cohen syndrome

cystinuria

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

inclusion body myositis

neuralgic amyotrophy

pyomyositis

severe combined immunodeficiency

systemic capillary leak syndrome

thoracic outlet syndrome

triple a syndrome

von hippel-lindau disease

This symptom has already been validated