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  • Title: Steroid myopathy in a child with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Case report.
    Author: Genel F, Arslanoglu S, Hizarcioglu M, Durmaz B, Uran N, Aktaş S.
    Journal: Panminerva Med; 2003 Mar; 45(1):75-7. PubMed ID: 12682624.
    Abstract:
    An 8-year-old boy who had been diagnosed as systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis were on treatment for 8 months with methotrexate and additional steroids during activation. At the end of the 8th month when the corticosteroid dose was 12.5 mg/day, he began to suffer from numbness and weakness in his hands. Physical examination, laboratory findings and electromyography results demonstrated myopathy. Steroid myopathy was considered. Corticosteroids were tapered and stopped. At follow-up clinical findings remitted and electromyography became normal at the 4th month. We present here this case to direct attention to drug-induced myopathy besides myopathy due to primary disease in connective tissue disorders whenever myopathy exists.
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