Use of Rescue Therapy with IVIG or Cyclophosphamide in Juvenile Myositis

This review aims to present the literature available to date on the use of intravenous immunoglobulin and cyclophosphamide for juvenile patients with inflammatory myopathies, to evaluate the strength of the evidence so far for both these medications, and to reach conclusions about their efficacy. Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, mainly represented by juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), are rare diseases but quite debilitating for the...