Steroid‐responsive tubular aggregate myopathy
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Muscle & Nerve
- Vol. 14 (3) , 233-236
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.880140306
Abstract
We report a man with an acute myalgia/cramp syndrome and tubular aggregates on his muscle biopsy. He was placed on prednisone and was found to be exquisitely sensitive to the drug, with changes of only 5 mg precipitating recurrence of symptoms. He was eventually tapered off all steroids, without symptoms, and repeat biopsy showed no tubular aggregates. We recommend similar patients be given a trial of high‐dose steroids.Keywords
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