[Primary Sjögren syndrome and inclusion body myositis].
The authors report the case of a 69-years-old woman with Sjögren's syndrome. After 8 years of disease she developed muscle weakness and the diagnosis of inclusion body myositis was established. This is a rare association. The patient had a good response to the immunosupressive treatment. Similar cases can be found in the literature and there seems to be a subset of inclusion body myositis associated with autoimmune diseases that shows a better response to treatment and a more favourable prognosis.
Monteiro
Paulo
P
Serviço de Reumatologia dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Praceta Mota Pinto, 3000 Coimbra - Portugal. pjr_monteiro@hotmail.com
Coutinho
Margarida
M
Salvador
Maria João
MJ
Malcata
Armando
A
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018979:Myositis, Inclusion Body / Q000150:complications*; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000150:complications*