• Internal medicine · Jan 2008

    Case Reports

    Rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia associated with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis successfully treated with polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column hemoperfusion.

    • Tomoyuki Kakugawa, Hiroshi Mukae, Masataka Saito, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Noriho Sakamoto, Takahiro Takazono, Yuichi Fukuda, Nobuharu Ooe, and Shigeru Kohno.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Emergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Kitakyushu Municipal Yahata Hospital, Fukuoka.
    • Intern. Med. 2008 Jan 1;47(8):785-90.

    AbstractAmyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) is a clinical subtype of dermatomyositis, characterized by the absence of motor weakness and the presence of normal muscle enzyme levels. ADM is sometimes accompanied by interstitial pneumonia that shows a rapid progressive course associated with a poor prognosis. We describe a 70-year-old man who presented rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia associated with clinically ADM (C-ADM); he was successfully treated with polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column (PMX) hemoperfusion.

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