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Drug-induced myopathies by J.-S. Le Quintrec; J.-L. Le Quintrec is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Drug-induced myopathies about?
Myopathies are not an unusual complication of drug therapy. The major symptoms in drug-induced myopathies are proximal muscle weakness, increased muscle enzyme levels, electromyographic changes and histological lesions. Some drug-induced myopathies are associated with neuropathy. Drug-induced myopathies can be classified according to the presence or absence of muscular pain and associated neuropathy. Among painless myopathies, we can distinguish myopathies without neuropathy (corticosteroids), myopathies with neuropathy (colchicine, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine) and myasthenic syndromes (D-penicillamine, antibiotics, beta-blockers). Among painful myopathies, the classification is similar: painful myopathies may or may not be associated with neuropathies. Painful myopathies include polymyositis (D-penicillamine, cimetidine, zidovudine) and other myopathies without polymyositis (clofibrate, statines, cyclosporin). Among the painful neuromyopathies, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is a recently described disorder associated with the use of L-tryptophan. Combinations of drugs (for example, a fibrate and a statine or cyclosporin and colchicine) can induce severe myopathies. If such
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- Author
- J.-S. Le Quintrec; J.-L. Le Quintrec
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)