Image 1. Skeletal muscle biopsy of the patient showing a swollen, eosinophilic and vacuolated myofiber that lacks cross striations and shows several pyknotic nuclei (left, orange arrow) and a regenerating myofiber with basophilic cytoplasm and enlarged nuclei with conspicuous nucleoli (right, fluorescent arrow)

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Rapid Progression of Heart Failure in a Patient with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy

Pramod Theetha Kariyanna, Apoorva Jayarangaiah, Abdullah Mahmood, Mitchell Hare, Nicholas Taklalsingh, Isabel M. McFarlane

American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2018, 6(8), 157-160 doi:10.12691/ajmcr-6-8-3