Corticosteroid myopathy:
- See under corticosteroid myopathy
Statin myopathy:
- See under statin myopathy
Ziduvodine Mitochondrial myopathy:
+Muscle biopsy:
- Ragged red fibres. COX negative fibres, Pleomorphic mitochondria
- Distinguishes it from HIV associated inflammatory myopathy
Choroquine neuromyopathy
+Muscle biopsy:
Vacuolar myopathy, especially in type 1 fibres. PAS positive.
Electron microscopy: muscle and nerve. Membranous whorlings, myelin figures, curvilinear inclusions.
Hypokalemic drugs:
- See under dyskalemic myopathy