Catalog

Respiratory disorders in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

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Link to WHO Definition

Respiratory disorders in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1376126404

This encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of breathing. This diagnosis is in an idiopathic inflammatory muscular disease in which the muscle fibres do not function for any one of many reasons, resulting in muscular weakness.