1. The most serious form of myopathy is called rhabdomyolysis.

2. Conclusions Adult form nemaline myopathy is clinically nonspecific.

3. Critical illness polyneuropathy (CFP) and critical illness myopathy (CIM) are frequently found in critical ill patients and may cause muscle weakness and even respiratory failure.

4. However, chronic myopathy may persist after prolonged treatment with high doses of corticosteroids.

5. In pure mitochondrial myopathy and CPEO group, none had the 5 point mutations.

6. Lipid storage myopathy is one kind of autosomal recessive inherited disease with lipid abnormally sludging in the muscle cell.

7. Dancing Dobermann disease is a type of myopathy that primarily affects the gastrocnemius muscle in Dobermanns.

8. Very rarely, this myopathy leads to muscle breakdown and fatal kidney failure.

9. Patients with myopathy generally have muscle pain, tenderness or weakness, and an elevation of a muscle enzyme in the blood (creatine kinase).

10. Myotubular myopathy ( XLMTM ) is a usually very severe congenital myopathy associated with major hypotonia at birth.

11. Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy refers to severe muscle weakness and atrophy in patients with critical illness, such as sepsis or multiple organ failure.

12. Steroid myopathy may be reversible with a reduction of dose or discontinuation of the steroid.

13. A rare but serious form of myopathy, called rhabdomyolysis, can damage the kidneys and lead to potentially fatal kidney failure.

14. In these patients, steroid - induced myopathy may lead to additional morbidity.

15. Also, scintigraphy may not differentiate clearly between neuropathy and myopathy.

16. We and others have described the histological characteristics of full thickness intestinal biopsies in patients with visceral myopathy and neuropathy.

17. The six children with no colonic contractions had a hollow visceral myopathy and constipation.

18. When thought to involve abnormalities of smooth muscle without abnormalities in myenteric neurons the syndrome is termed hollow visceral myopathy.

19. The paper makes a retrospective analysis of 16 cases with thyroidism companying myopathy.

20. It is not known if the increased risk for myopathy observed in these patients applies to other patients of Asian descent.

21. Objective To investigate the clinical and pathological features of adult form nemaline myopathy.

22. A patient with generalized seizure disorder who took the larger dose of phenytoin sodium over a long period of time, showed encephalopathy, cerebellar ataxia, peripheral neuropathy and myopathy.

23. The figures for high-risk men were similar, except for myopathy, with an extra 110 cases.

24. Conclusion Sarcoplasmic masses and myogenic grouping are the pathological characteristics of myopathy in DM.

25. That can have adverse effects on health as it worsens various disorders, such as myopathy, adult-onset diabetes, hypertension and impotency, ' said the research team.

26. ConclusionXYQJT can obviously recover the structure of skeletal muscles caused by thyrotoxic myopathy in rats.

27. Objective To investigate the clinical manifestations and pathological features nemaline myopathy ( NM ) .

28. Myoblast transplantation has been carried out for a certain period[http://], but its efficiency in repairing inherited myopathy or severe muscular injury is not satisfactory.

29. The study also confirmed that adding fenofibrate to simvastatin did not result in any excess risk of myopathy (muscle problems), venous thrombosis or pancreatitis.

30. Methods The clinical manifestations and laboratory parameters of 12 patients with polymyositis and 10 patents with hypothyroid myopathy were analyzed and the relevant literature was reviewed.

31. The risk of myopathy is also increased when simvastatin, especially at the higher doses, is used with certain drugs (see Simvastatin Dose Limitations below).

32. Discuss with patients the benefits and risks, including the risk of myopathy and rhabdomyolysis, of simvastatin therapy.