Luc Pijnenburg, Margherita Giannini, Maude Bouchard-Marmen, Laurent Arnaud, Simone Barsotti, Silvia Bellando-Randone, Livio Bernardi, Paola Bini, Jelena Blagojevic, Veronica Codullo, Marion Couderc, Claire De Moreuil, Emanuelle Dernis, Luca Diamanti, Jean Jacques Dubost, Fanny Duval, Giacomo Emmi, Jean-Marc Galempoix, Bernard Geny, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Monica Groza, Aurelien Guffroy, Isabelle Guichard, Philippe Guilpain, Baptiste Hervier, Marie Hudson, Luca Iaccarino, Florenzo Iannone, Delphine Lebrun, Enrico Marchioni, Kuberaka Mariampillai, Francois Maurier, Marta Mosca, Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza, Carlotta Nannini, Jean-Maxime Piot, Sergio Prieto-González, Nicolas Poursac, Eglantine Rouanet, Jérémie Sellam, Albert Selva-O'Callaghan, François Séverac, Jean Sibilia, Guilhem Sole, Antoine Soulages, Benjamin Terrier, Anne Tournadre, Yves Troyanov, Nathalie Vernier, Veronique Vesperini, Jean-François Viallard, Rahima Ziane, Lorenzo Cavagna, Alain Meyer
BACKGROUND: Some myopathies can lead to dropped head or bent spine syndrome (DH/BS). The significance of this symptom has not been studied in inflammatory myopathies (IM). OBJECTIVES: To assess the significance of DH/BS in patients with IM. METHODS: Practitioners from five IM networks were invited to report patients with IM suffering from DH/BS (without other known cause than IM). IM patients without DH/BS, randomly selected in each participating centre, were included as controls at a ratio of 2 to 1...
September 2023: RMD Open