Síndrome de Sjögren primária e miosite de corpos de inclusão

• Author(s): Monteiro, P ; Coutinho, M ; Salvador, MJ ; Malcata, AB
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/520
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Síndrome de Sjögren; Miosite
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

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.