Therapeutic comorbidity – combination of dermatopolymiositis and Weber-Christian panniculitis: a difficult path to diagnosis

Abstract

Comorbid pathology in therapeutic practice is difficult to diagnose, because it often has a complex clinical picture, atypical dynamics of the course of diseases, including those changing under the influence of ongoing therapy. The polysystemic nature of the lesion with an uneven degree of pathological damage to organs and systems can obscure the underlying disease when its symptoms are accepted as a separate disease. At the same time, the insufficient effectiveness of the therapy should make you think about other causes of the pathological process, suspect autoimmune, oncological and rare congenital or genetically determined diseases and syndromes.

Keywords

• dermatopolymiositis
• interstitial lung diseases
• pneumonitis
• panniculitis
• comorbid pathology
• polysystemic lesions.