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Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is characterized by aching proximal muscles and systemic inflammation. We explored the pain-eliciting mechanisms by measuring interstitial levels in muscle of potentially pain-inducing substances as well as local blood flow. Twenty glucocorticoid-naive patients with
Polymyalgia rheumatica should be considered when a syndrome of constitutional symptoms, especially weight loss, low-grade fever, weakness, wasting proximal muscles, fatigue, malaise and depression, is seen in the elderly. Giant-cell arteritis plays a part later in the course. Thus the need for
Although corticosteroid treatment is clearly beneficial to patients with temporal arteritis, its exact risk/benefit ratio in these old and side effects-prone patients is unknown. We have thus surveyed that available French and English literature, in order to pool the published series and to evaluate
The adverse drug event manager of the Capital Region of Denmark received a report of a 65-year-old male with type II diabetes and long-lasting treatment with indapamide. In addition, he had a history of a high consumption of licorice. For 2 weeks, the patient suffered from myalgia, which the general