Disease Information for Dermatomyositis/childhood type
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Demographics & Risk Factors[next]
- Population Group
- Population/Pediatrics population
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Child
- Population/Child-Infant Only
- Population/Children/all
- Population/Female
- Population Group
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Presentation/Paralysis, progressive, legs/hips, painful
- Disease Progression
- Course/Chronic disorder
- Course/Chronic only
- Course/Self limited usually
- Signs & Symptoms
- Child
- Facial Malar flush/rash
- Heliotrope rash,periorbital
- Lupus-like butterfly rash,face
- Red/erythema skin discoloration
- Erythroderma
- Facial erythema
- Facial rash
- Fever and Rash
- Gottren's sign/red plaques/knuckles
- Nodular rash with ulcer/necrosis/scarring effect
- Non-pruritic rash
- Rash
- Symmetrical rash
- Telangiectasias in Children
- Abdominal Pain
- Dysphagia/Swallowing difficulties
- Weight loss in Children
- Lymphadenopathy
- Lymphadenopathy, systemic
- Arm/shoulder weakness (symptom)
- Diffuse Aches and Pains
- Distal leg weakness
- Distal Muscle Weakness
- Edema/hands and feet
- Hypotonia
- Local muscle tenderness
- Muscle Pain
- Muscle weakness
- Muscles swelling
- Myalgias
- Proximal limb girdle muscle pain
- Proximal lower extremity weakness
- Proximal muscle weakness
- Proximal symmetrical muscle weakness
- Proximal upper extremity weakness
- Stiffness
- Stiffness in Extremities
- Symmetrical muscle involvement/stiffness
- Symmetrical muscle/pain, weakness
- Tender or painful muscles/Myalgias
- Unable to stand up from sitting position
- Weak/Weak as a kitten (symptom)
- Flaccid arm/shoulder paralysis
- Flaccid muscle paralysis
- Hyporeflexia/DTRs decreased
- Weak reflexes
- Weakness/Diffuse motor loss
- Arthritis with rash/dermatitis
- Fingers stiff/limited motion
- Morning gel stiffness
- Skeletal problems/symptoms/signs
- Nasal/Hyponasal sound to voice
- Difficulty climbing stairs
- Difficulty descending stairs
- Difficulty kneeling
- Difficulty raising arms
- Difficulty rising from chair
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Fatigue/chronic
- Fatigue/tiredness/exhaustion
- Fever
- Fever in kids
- Fever Remittant/Recurrent
- Fever with High sed Rate
- Fever, intermittant/recurrent
- Fever/Febrile Possible
- Flu-Like Syndrome
- High body temperature
- Malaise
- Total body pain/truncal/extremities
- Unable to stand
- Weakness
- Weight loss
- Periorbital edema/Puffy eyes
- Periorbital/ocular rash
- Typical Clinical Presentation
Laboratory Tests[previous][top][next]
- Microbiology & Serology Findings
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- Anti-AM-1 Antibodies (Lab)
- Anti-U2SNRNP
- WBC
- Aldolase, serum (Lab)
- ALT/SGPT (Alanine transferase) (Lab)
- ANA, speckled (Lab)
- ANA/Antinuclear antibody/Fluorescent ANA (Lab)
- Aspartamine aminotransferase (SGOT, AST) (Lab)
- AST/SGOT (aspartamine transferase) (Lab)
- CK-MM (Lab)
- CPK/CK/Creatine kinase/Creatine phosphokinase (Lab)
- Globulin, serum (Lab)
- Haptoglobin, serum (Lab)
- IGD/Immunoglobulin D (Lab)
- LDH/Lactic Dehydrogenase (Lab)
- LE Prep/Lupus erythematosis cell prep (Lab)
- Myoglobin
- Rheumatoid factor (Lab)
- Sed Rate/ESR/Sedimentation rate (Lab)
- WBC/White Blood Cell Count/Leukocytes (Lab)
- URINE Bence Jones protein
- URINE Creatine
- URINE Myoglobin
Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]
- Pathology
- Electrodiagnosis
- X-RAY
Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
- Rule Outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Congestive heart failure
- Dermatitis/Chronic rash
- Dermatomyositis/childhood type
- Enteritis, secondary
- Esophageal hypomotility/effect
- Hyperglobulinemia
- Inflammatory myopathy
- Livedo reticularis
- Myopathy/secondary/nonspecific
- Polyarthritis in Children
- Polyarthritis syndrome/Multiple joints/weeks
- Polymyositis
- Telangiectasia
- Heart Failure in a Child
- PolyArthritis
Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]
- Class
- CLASS/Pediatric disorders (ex)
- CLASS/Dermatologic/Subcutaneous (category)
- CLASS/Muscle disorder (ex)
- CLASS/Muscle involvement/manifestations
- CLASS/Muscle/tendon/extremities (category)
- CLASS/Striated muscle disorder (ex)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Necrotizing vasculitis
- Pathophysiology/Gut necrotizing arteritis
- Pathophysiology/Activated cellular immunopathology
- Process
- PROCESS/Allergy/collagen/autoimmune (category)
- PROCESS/Collagen disease (ex)
- PROCESS/Muscle inflammatory disorder (ex)
- Class
Treatment[previous][top][next]
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Gamma globulin (intravenous, high dose)
- RX/Prednisone (Deltasone)
- Surgical Procedures or Treatments
- SX/Biopsy
- Other Treatments
- TX/Physical therapy
- Drug Therapy - Indication
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