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Toxic and Drug-Induced Myopathies
JNNP 80:832-838, Dalakas,M.C., 2009
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Article Abstract
This review provides an update on the drugs with well-documented myocytoxicity and cautions the clinicians to be alert for the potential toxicity of newly marked drugs; highlights the clinical features and pathomechanisms of the induced muscle disease; and offers guidance on how best to treat and distinguish toxic myopathies from other acquired or heredity muscle disorders. Practical issues regarding the diagnosis and management of statin-induced myopathies are emphasized. Myotoxicity resulting from direct insertion of transgenes to the muscle, and exciting new tool currently tested for treatment of muscular dystrophies, is also discussed.
 
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