What Are the Causes of Myositis

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Tip 1 - Myositis: Symptoms and Causes

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Grimm Reaper Dude | permalink

Learn more from WebMD about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of myositis.
Tags: myositis, myositis symptoms, myositis causes, muscle, inflammation, pain, myalgias, working out, viral, virus, infections, autoimmune, drugs, statins, kidneys

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/myositis-symptoms-treatments-prognosis ^[1]

Tip 2 - Types of Myositis

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dinesh Shelar | permalink

What is myositis? Myositis means muscle inflammation, and can be caused by infection, injury, certain medicines, exercise, and chronic disease.
Tags: The Myositis Association

For further reading: http://www.myositis.org/learn-about-myositis/types-of-myositis ^[2]

Tip 3 - Myositis Guide: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by J Puckett | permalink

Myositis - an easy to understand guide covering causes, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment and prevention plus additional in depth medical information.
Tags: Myositis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

For further reading: http://www.drugs.com/health-guide/myositis.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - Causes/Inheritance Inclusion-Body Myositis

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Martha Grover | permalink

What causes inclusion-body myositis (IBM)? In most cases, the cause of IBM is unclear. For some reason, the body’s immune system turns against its own muscles and damages muscle tissue in an autoimmune process. Viruses might be a trigger for autoimmune myositis. People with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, can develop a myositis, as can people with a virus called HTLV-1. Some myositis cases have followed infection with the Coxsackie B virus.

For further reading: http://mda.org/disease/inclusion-body-myositis/causes-inheritance ^[4]

Tip 5 - Myositis

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Thao Bui | permalink

Myositis is a term meaning inflammation in the muscles. There are several types of myositis, the most common being polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

For further reading: http://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/myositis/ ^[5]

Tip 6 - Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Myositis

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by paco 677 | permalink

Infectious myositis may be caused by a broad range of bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral agents. Infectious myositis is overall uncommon given the relative resistance of the musculature to infection. For example, inciting events, including trauma, ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493084/ ^[6]