Abstract

The major types of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS), and inclusion body myositis (IBM). I will discuss the clinical, laboratory, and histopathological features of these inflammatory myopathies and update the believed pathogenic basis for these disorders.

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