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Letter to the Editor
Dysferlinopathy masquerading as a refractory polymyositis
Disferlinopatía, una causa de falsa polimiositis refractaria
Jose Loureiro Amigoa,
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jloureir@vhebron.net

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, Eduard Gallardob, Pia Gallanoc, Josep M. Grau-Junyentd
a Internal Medicine Department, Vall d’Hebron General Hospital, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
b Neuromuscular Disorders Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
c Servei de Genètica, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
d Muscle Research Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Fundación Cellex, Barcelona, Spain
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a lymphohistiocytic inflammatory infiltrate &#40;mainly T lymphocytes&#41; of endomysial location and regenerative changes of muscle fibers&#46; With these findings she was diagnosed with PM and underwent neoplasm screening&#44; with normal results&#46; The immunological study was negative&#46; The patient began treatment for a year and a half with prednisone and several immunosuppressors &#40;methotrexate&#44; azathioprine and mycophenolate&#41;&#44; without a clear improvement&#46; Therefore&#44; ultimately she was administered rituximab&#44; not responding to treatment either&#46; Finally immunosuppressive therapy was discontinued and prednisone dosage was lowered until withdrawal about 6 months before our assessment&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Assessed at our center&#44; the patient had a normal phenotype&#44; and the examination revealed mild motor deficit of the abductors and hip extensors&#46; Analytically&#44; muscle enzymes remained high &#40;CK 3645<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>IU&#47;l&#41;&#46; 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Confirmation was obtained determining the expression of dysferlin by Western-blot in peripheral blood monocytes of the patient&#44; which turned out to be 18&#37;&#44; confirming the existence of a deficiency in dysferlin &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; The genetic study detected mutation c&#46;5509G&#62;A&#44; p&#46;Asp1837Asn&#44; g&#46;71896321G&#62;A&#44; located in exon 49 in homozygosis&#46; The pathogenicity of this mutation&#44; described in the LOVD database&#44; was tested with Alamut PolyPhen-2 and UniProtKB software&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dysferlin is a protein of the ferlin family expressed in the smooth&#44; cardiac and skeletal muscle&#44; but also in monocytes&#44; neutrophils&#44; placenta&#44; brain and kidney&#44; whose main function is to repair the muscle cell membrane&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Patients with abnormalities in this protein have a defective muscle repair&#44; which eventually leads to muscle degeneration&#46; Hence the importance of an accurate diagnosis to avoid the damaging effect on the muscle caused by the glucocorticoids administered for treatment of an alleged PM&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dysferlinopathy is typically manifested in the second or third decade of life and may have several clinical phenotypes&#46; The best known are the girdle dystrophy 2B and Miyoshi distal myopathy &#40;predominantly involving the posterior compartment of the leg&#41;&#44; but there are other phenotypes&#44; such as the anterior distal myopathy &#40;with involvement of the anterior tibial and finger extensor and rapid progression with involvement of pelvic girdle&#44; finger flexors and arm proximal muscles&#41; or axially&#46; There are also patients with dysferlinopathy who only have an asymptomatic hyper-CK-emia or are asymptomatic carriers&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> However&#44; the more this entity is understood&#44; the less differences among the various phenotypes&#46; Thus&#44; our patient&#44; who had a phenotype that could be classified as girdle dystrophy 2B&#44; also had involvement of axial and posterior compartment of the leg &#40;Nguyen &#8220;proximodistal&#8221; phenotype&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In a refractory PM the clinician is forced to reconsider the diagnosis&#44; considering others such as girdle dystrophies&#44; and especially disferlinopathy with possible inflammatory infiltrates in the muscle biopsy&#44; as in the case of the first biopsy of this patient&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#8211;7</span></a> The correct diagnosis avoids unnecessary and risky immunosuppressive therapy&#46; This case highlights the diagnostic usefulness of the Western-blot technique for determining the activity of dysferlin in peripheral blood monocytes as an alternative to immunohistochemical demonstration of dysferlin deficiency in muscular biopsy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8&#44;9</span></a></p></span>"
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