Titlebook: Challenging Cases in Rheumatology and Diseases of the Immune System; Massoud Mahmoudi Book 2013 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

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DermatomyositisDermatomyositis is an inflammatory myopathy associated with a variety of skin manifestations, has an association to malignancy, and usually presents with symmetric proximal muscle weakness. The manifestations vary dramatically between patients. Here, we present two challenging cases of amyopathic dermatomyositis and anti-synthetase syndrome.

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Churg–Strauss SyndromeOf all the vasculitides, Churg–Strauss Syndrome (CSS) is one of the least common. Though regarded as an ANCA-associated vasculitis, serologies may be negative in a high proportion of patients. As a systemic disorder, disease presentation may be highly variable. Here we discuss two challenging cases of CSS.

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Wegener’s Granulomatosisanding the signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, and biopsy results are key to making the diagnosis of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis. A heightened degree of clinical suspicion for this rare disease will often lead to the correct diagnosis.

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Phenolic Antioxidants in Fruits, course, and prognosis characterized by remissions and flares. The extreme heterogeneity of the disease has led some investigators to propose that SLE represents a syndrome rather than a single disease. Here we present two cases describing the complexity and heterogeneity of the disease.

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Chemistry of Phenolic Antioxidantstasias) syndrome. There are several illnesses that might mimic SSc like morphea, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, and eosinophilic fasciitis. This is a case based review of SSc, diffuse and limited phenotypes.