General Anaesthesia for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Patient with the Kearns-Sayre Syndrome by Paolo Calzavacca, Walter Schmidt, Manuela Guzzi

“…We describe the management of general anaesthesia in this rare myopathy, with emphasis on the use of rocuronium as muscle blocking agent. …”
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Rare Cause of Wide QRS Tachycardia by Nikolay Yu. Mironov, Natalia A. Mironova, Marina A. Saidova, Olga V. Stukalova, Sergey P. Golitsyn

“…Occasionally severe cardiac disease, including conduction disturbances, life-threatening arrhythmias, and cardiomyopathy, with its impact on prognosis, may be dissociated from peripheral myopathy. We report a case of bundle branch reentrant ventricular tachycardia as primary manifestation of myotonic dystrophy and discuss associated diagnostic and treatment challenges.…”
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ICAM1 blockade improves ischemic muscle reperfusion in diabetic mice by Ninon Foussard, Célia Bourguignon, Virginie Grouthier, Caroline Caradu, Candice Chapouly, Alain-Pierre Gadeau, Thierry Couffinhal, Marie-Ange Renault

“…Notably anti-ICAM1 therapy did diminish macrophage infiltration and oxidative stress but not myopathy suggesting that myopathy characterized by small myocytes expressing higher level of MYH2 could be responsible for microangiopathy. …”
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Chronic Constipation in the Elderly: An Unusual Presentation of Colonic Dysmotility in an Elderly Patient by R. Peravali, H. Kranenburg, J. E. Martin, N. Keeling

“…Conclusion. Primary colonic myopathy should be considered in elderly patients presenting with large bowel obstruction and a long preceding history of constipation, particularly when previous endoscopic examinations were normal.…”
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MELAS Missed for Years: Stroke-Like Lesions Are No Indication for Brain Biopsy by J. Finsterer

“…Further manifestations of the mitochondrial disorder (MID) were tremor, cerebral atrophy, bilateral basal ganglia, calcification, glaucoma, hypoacusis, short stature, hyperostosis frontalis, hyperthyroidism, sick-sinus syndrome and AV-block-1, and myopathy. According to the Walker criteria, a possible MID was diagnosed. …”
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An Unexpected Interaction between Sofosbuvir/Ledipasvir and Atorvastatin and Colchicine Causing Rhabdomyolysis in a Patient with Impaired Renal Function by Shyam Patel, Jennifer Andres, Kamran Qureshi

“…Coadministration of Sof/Led is studied only with rosuvastatin which shows significantly increased level of drug and is associated with increased risk of myopathy, including rhabdomyolysis. There is no mention of such HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor interaction as a class, as pravastatin did not have any clinically significant interaction with Sof/Led. …”
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Cushing’s Disease Presented by Reversible Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Berna İmge Aydoğan, Demet Menekşe Gerede, Asena Gökçay Canpolat, Murat Faik Erdoğan

“…A 48-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinic with severe proximal myopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy without ventricular hypertrophy. …”
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Dermatomyositis following resection of thyroid and breast cancer: a case report and literature review by Miaomiao Yang, Jiannan Liu

“…BackgroundDermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and occurs as a paraneoplastic syndrome. Here, we report an unusual case of dermatomyositis that developed in a patient after the resection of thyroid cancer and breast cancer. …”
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Rhabdomyolysis Induced by Nonstrenuous Exercise in a Patient with Graves’ Disease by Sarawut Summachiwakij, Issac Sachmechi

“…Hyperthyroidism can result in several musculoskeletal conditions such as thyrotoxic periodic paralysis, thyrotoxic myopathy, and thyroid ophthalmopathy. Rhabdomyolysis has been rarely reported to be associated with hyperthyroidism. …”
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Thyrotoxic periodic Paralysis With hypoxemia: A case report and a comprehensive review by Wei Song, Da Gu, Binbin Ji, Qiang Guo, Cong Liu

“…Hyperthyroidism is linked to several muscle disorders, including thyrotoxic myopathy, myasthenia gravis, and periodic paralysis. …”
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Recalcitrant Dermatomyositis Treated With Anifrolumab by Shivang Chaudhary, Meghan Baumer, Laura Upton, Samantha Ong, Kristin Smith, Daniel West, Adam Kilian

“…Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy which can present with distinctive skin features. …”
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Sugammadex and Reversal of Neuromuscular Block in Adult Patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Ahmed Abdelgawwad Wefki Abdelgawwad Shousha, Maria Sanfilippo, Antonio Sabba, Paolo Pinchera

“…Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and severe form of myopathy. Patients with DMD are more sensitive to sedative, anesthetic, and neuromuscular blocking agents which may result in intraoperative and early postoperative cardiovascular and respiratory complications, as well as prolonged recovery from anesthesia. …”
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Adolescent with Rhabdomyolysis due to Undiagnosed Hypothyroidism by Raquel Farias Moeller, Nassim Zecavati, Rosa Sherafat-Kazemzadeh, Shoshana Aleinikoff, Wolfgang Rennert

“…Although rare, hypothyroidism should be considered as a potential cause of rhabdomyolysis in pediatric patients undergoing a myopathy workup.…”
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GC-MS analysis of cholesterol lowering dietary supplements by Velislava Todorova, Diana Karcheva-Bahchevanska, Stanislava Ivanova

“…However, it must be taken into account the potential interaction of statins to induce myopathy and rhabdomyolizis. In order to prevent adverse effects, it is necessary to thoroughly evaluate and be careful when using DSs containing monacolin K.…”
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Statin-Associated Necrotizing Autoimmune Myositis Complicated by an Uncommon Adverse Effect to Treatment by Brian M. Fung, Emil R. Heinze, Andrew L. Wong

“…Unlike self-limited statin myopathy, this condition usually requires aggressive immunomodulation therapy to assist recovery and prevent future disability. …”
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A Case Series on Cardiac and Skeletal Involvement in Two Families with PRKAG2 Mutations by Anita Sri, Piers Daubeney, Sanjay Prasad, John Baksi, Maria Kinali, Inga Voges

“…Furthermore, we highlight that skeletal myopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are significant debilitating characteristics of the PRKAG2 mutation. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Rheumatic Adverse Events Related to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors by Yan Xiao, Lin Zeng, Qinglin Shen, Zhiyong Zhou, Zhifang Mao, Qin Wang, Xiquan Zhang, Yingliang Li, Weirong Yao

“…Among them, rheumatic irAE is less common, mainly including inflammatory arthritis, rheumatic myalgia/giant cell arteritis, inflammatory myopathy, and Sjogren’s syndrome. For oncologists, rheumatism is a relatively new field, and early diagnosis and treatment is very important, and we need to work closely with experienced rheumatologists. …”
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Severe Rhabdomyolysis Associated with Simvastatin and Role of Ciprofloxacin and Amlodipine Coadministration by Nicolas De Schryver, Xavier Wittebole, Peter Van den Bergh, Vincent Haufroid, Eric Goffin, Philippe Hantson

“…Multiple factors have been shown to influence simvastatin-induced myopathy. In addition to age, gender, ethnicity, genetic predisposition, and dose, drug-drug interactions play a major role. …”
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Screening for Cushing Syndrome at the Primary Care Level: What Every General Practitioner Must Know by Ernest Yorke, Yacoba Atiase, Josephine Akpalu, Osei Sarfo-Kantanka

“…The clinical awareness of the primary care physician (PCP) to the highly indicative signs and symptoms such as facial plethora, proximal myopathy, reddish purple striae, and easy bruisability should alert him to look for biochemical evidence of Cushing’s syndrome through any of the first-line screening tests, namely, 24-hour urinary free cortisol, overnight dexamethasone suppression test, or late-night salivary cortisol. …”
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Pseudomyopathic Changes in Needle Electromyography in Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome by Teppei Komatsu, Kota Bokuda, Toshio Shimizu, Tetsuo Komori, Reiji Koide

“…In six of the 8 patients, the EMG findings showed myopathy-like findings. Although the findings of needle EMG indicated myopathic changes at a glance, the motor unit potential (MUP) returned to normal after a sustained strong muscle contraction. …”
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