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Record W4394578806 · doi:10.33844/cjm.2024.6035

Recurrent Focal Myositis of the Thigh in a Patient With End-Stage Kidney Disease: An Unusual Association

2024· article· en· W4394578806 on OpenAlex
Jeyapraniya Arumugam, Shamila De Silva

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Medicine · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineThighStage (stratigraphy)MyositisEnd stage renal diseaseAssociation (psychology)DiseaseAnatomyPathologyPsychologyBiology

Abstract

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A 40-year-old woman, with a ten-year history of diabetes and hypertension, was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease necessitating regular hemodialysis twice weekly for the past year. The patient reported recurrent episodes of swelling and pain in the left thigh, initially treated as cellulitis. The pain was persistent and there was an ill-defined firm lump in the thigh muscle. Biopsy of the mass revealed endomysial mononuclear cell infiltrates, including lymphocytes and histiocytes, focal muscle fiber necrosis, and regeneration, indicating an inflammatory myopathy. MRI of the thigh confirmed patchy myositis with no definitive collection or mass identified. Focal myositis was diagnosed and the patient was managed expectantly with physiotherapy and analgesics. Over a span of approximately three months the condition completely resolved. Muscle pain in end-stage kidney disease often stems from causes such as peripheral neuropathy, critical lower limb ischemia, muscle cramps due to electrolyte abnormalities, and chronic infection. Focal myositis is rarely documented in literature and only a few cases of recurrent focal myositis have been reported previously in patients with end-stage kidney disease.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.186
Threshold uncertainty score0.567

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it