NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS, cilt.19, sa.4, ss.261-263, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
An 11-year-old girl with a calpain-3 gene (CAPN-3) mutation and eosinophilic myositis on muscle biopsy had high serum CK levels and eosinophil counts which showed spontaneous fluctuations. After commencement of immunosuppressive therapy reciprocal changes occured in response to alterations in closes of the medications. Subacutely evolving and spreading muscle weakness developed during tapering of the immunosuppressive medications.