inflammatory myopathy is a paraneoplastic syndrome. inflammatory myopathy may be the first manifestation of underlying malignancy. it was reported in patients with colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and non-hodgkin lymphoma. there are few reports regarding inflammatory myopathy in patients with gastric cancer. we want to present inflammatory myopathy as early manifestation...

mitochondrial myopathy, lactic acidosis, and sideroblastic anemia (mlasa) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of oxidative phosphorylation and iron metabolism. the association between myopathy and sideroblastic anemia was initially reported in 1974. here we report an 8.5 year old boy with normal cognitive function, suffering from chronic progressive weakness in his lower extremities...

Several cases of inflammatory myopathy have been reported during the chronic course of hepatitis C (HC) in recent years. It has been suggested that this muscular inflammatory involvement in HC is related to an immune-mediated mechanism caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), as HCV RNA has been detected in the muscle of patients with concomitant inflammatory myopathy and chronic HC. Herein, we r...

Myopathy, which clinically shows muscular pain (myalgia), weakness, cramps, stiffness and spasm, is one of neuromuscular disorders due to inflammation and/or dysfunction of muscle fibers. “Myositis”, which is a general term for inflammation of the muscle, is pathologically an inflammatory myopathy seen seen mainly in autoimmune disorders including dermatomyositis (DM). The myopathy is classifie...