A Curious Case of Acute Respiratory Failure: Is It Antisynthetase Syndrome?

Antisynthetase (AS) syndrome is a major subgroup of inflammatory myopathies seen in a minority of patients with dermatomyositis and polymyositis. Although it is usually associated with elevated creatine phosphokinase level, some patients may have amyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) like presentation wi...

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Main Authors: Gurveen Malhotra, Nitya Ramreddy, Serafin Chua, Mira Iliescu, Tanjeev Kaur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Critical Care
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7379829
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