Dermatomyositis responding to treatment of associated toxoplasmosis.

Harland, C C; Marsden, J R; Vernon, S A; Allen, B R · Br J Dermatol · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We report a 59-year-old woman with severe dermatomyositis in association with high serum toxoplasma antibody titres who was successfully treated with pyrimethamine and sulphadiazine. This case supports an aetiological role for toxoplasmosis in the pathogenesis of some cases of dermatomyositis.

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