Abstract
Objective
To characterize the clinical and pathological features of anti-HMGCR myopathy.
Methods
The presence of anti-HMGCR antibody in the serum of 227 patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) and 100 healthy control individuals was assessed by ELISA. All ELISA positive samples were retested by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IIFA) on HEK293 cells. The clinical findings, muscle pathological features, and treatment outcomes of patients with anti-HMGCR myopathy, along with comparisons between anti-HMGCR myopathy with and without dermatomyositis (DM)-like skin rashes, and among MSA-based subgroups were analyzed.
Results
We established an optimized ELISA cutoff for anti-HMGCR antibody positivity as ≥ 5.28 U. The overall concordance between ELISA and IIFA was 96.83%. Twenty-one out of 227 IIM patients were anti-HMGCR-positive by both assays. Of these 21 patients, 9 had DM-like skin rashes, and 16 showed remarkable muscle inflammation; 5 patients were juvenile-onset, and 2 received statin treatment. The muscle biopsies from these patients demonstrated variable muscle necrosis and T cell infiltration. Most anti-HMGCR-positive patients achieved favorable outcomes following prednisone and additional immunotherapies. The anti-HMGCR myopathy patients with DM-like rashes, compared to those without DM-like rashes, were younger and had a shorter disease duration.
Conclusions
Optimization of cutoff of anti-HMGCR antibody assays with confirmation by alternative assays can result in higher sensitivity and specificity. DM-like skin rashes and lymphocytic infiltrates were not rare in patients with anti-HMGCR myopathy. These findings suggest that while anti-HMGCR myopathy may overlap with DM-like rash, it is pathologically different from classic DM, and should be considered a distinct subgroup of IIM.
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The authors thank Inova Diagnostics for providing HMGCR ELISA kits and thank all the patients and healthy controls included in this study.
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This work was supported by the Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province, the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No.81701238), 20 policy supported projects of collaborative innovation and achievement transformation in universities and research institutes of Jinan (2019GXRC050), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant Number ZR2020QH167), Innovative Research Project of Undergraduate Clinical Medicine Teaching of Qilu Hospital, Shandong University (Grant Number 2019QLJY13), Qingdao Technology Program for Health and Welfare (20-3-4-42-nsh), Qingdao Applied Basic Research Source Innovation Plan (19-6-2-78-cg), and Qingdao Key Health Discipline Development Fund.
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YH and KS contributed equally to this work. CY designed and conceptualized study. YH and KS analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. KS, YY, and GN tested antibodies. CY, YH, TD, WL, YZ, and DL, major role in the acquisition of data. CY, JL, and GN interpreted the data and revised the manuscript.
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Hou, Y., Shao, K., Yan, Y. et al. Anti-HMGCR myopathy overlaps with dermatomyositis-like rash: a distinct subtype of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. J Neurol 269, 280–293 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-021-10621-7
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