Case Report: Balancing immunosuppression and infection—intravenous immunoglobulin in anti-HMGCR immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy complicated by severe pneumonia
Jing Fu, Qiong Zhao, Jing-Bo Lou, Gui-Hua Tang, Wei Chen, Jiang-Hu Zhao, Qian-Song He · 2026
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A man whose immune system was eating his muscles also caught severe pneumonia, and his doctors threaded the needle with antibody infusions, report Jing Fu and co-authors in a 2026 case study. The 65 year old had taken a statin for three years before weakness and swallowing trouble began; the first diagnosis, a different muscle disease, was wrong.
Tests confirmed the antibody driven disease, and a marker of inflammation had soared during his sepsis. The team stopped one immune drug, held the steroid steady, and gave five days of intravenous immunoglobulin with strong antibiotics. Within two weeks his strength doubled and his lungs recovered.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jing Fu, Qiong Zhao, Jing-Bo Lou, Gui-Hua Tang, Wei Chen, Jiang-Hu Zhao, Qian-Song He |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |