Myositis

Myositis is a topic covered in the Diagnosaurus.

To view the entire topic, please or .

Emergency Central is a collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals created for emergency medicine professionals. Explore these free sample topics:

-- The first section of this topic is shown below --

DDx

Muscle inflammation

  • Polymyositis
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
  • Scleroderma
  • Sjögren's syndrome
  • Inclusion body myositis
  • Trichinosis (Trichinella infection)
  • Sarcocystosis
Other causes of proximal muscle weakness
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Endocrine: hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Cushing's syndrome
  • Alcoholism
  • Drugs: corticosteroids, statins, clofibrate, colchicine, chloroquine, emetine, aminocaproic acid, bretylium, penicillamine, drugs causing hypokalemia
  • HIV myopathy
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Osteomalacia
  • Mitochondrial myopathy
  • Diabetic lumbosacral plexopathy

-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please or --

DDx

Muscle inflammation

  • Polymyositis
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
  • Scleroderma
  • Sjögren's syndrome
  • Inclusion body myositis
  • Trichinosis (Trichinella infection)
  • Sarcocystosis
Other causes of proximal muscle weakness
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Endocrine: hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Cushing's syndrome
  • Alcoholism
  • Drugs: corticosteroids, statins, clofibrate, colchicine, chloroquine, emetine, aminocaproic acid, bretylium, penicillamine, drugs causing hypokalemia
  • HIV myopathy
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Osteomalacia
  • Mitochondrial myopathy
  • Diabetic lumbosacral plexopathy

There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.