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JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 370-375Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF03347462
Keywords
Electromyography; glucocorticoids; motor unit; muscle fibers
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- Regional Health Administration
- bank foundations Compagnia di San Paolo
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Steroid myopathy is a non-inflammatory toxic myopathy that occurs as side effect of exogenous and endogenous glucocorticoid excess. The purpose of this review is to examine issues that limit our understanding of this myopathy with respect to nosology, etiopathogenesis, conditioning factors, and muscle fiber selectivity. We suggest that if more data were available on these issues, the understanding of steroid myopathy would be enhanced substantially, thus allowing an early detection of its occurrence (before the appearance of clinical or laboratory signs) and a proper treatment of the patients. (J. Endocrinol. Invest. 34: 370-375, 2011) (c) 2011, Editrice Kurtis
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