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Anti-HMGCR myopathy: barriers to prompt recognition
We present two patients with atypical clinical or pathological features. A 45-year-old woman had an asymptomatic serum creatine kinase (CK) of ~10 000 IU/L and muscle biopsy showing minimal changes. She then developed slowly progressive proximal weakness, diagnosed as limb-girdle muscular dystrophy but with negative genetics. Twelve years later, now with severe proximal weakness, her MR scan of muscle showed diffuse asymmetrical fatty degeneration, with conspicuous hyperintense STIR signal abnormalities. HMGCR antibodies were positive and she partially improved with immunosuppression. The second patient developed slowly pr...
Source: Practical Neurology - December 23, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Andrea Barp Ashirwad Merve Sachit Shah Mahalekshmi Desikan Michael G Hanna Enrico Bugiardini Source Type: research
