Complementary and alternative medicine in dermatomyositis: A scoping review

Ghizlane Yaakoubi¹, Maha Kazmi^{2

3}, Sarah Patterson⁴, Anna Haemel²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California.
⁴ Department of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Ghizlane Yaakoubi et al. JAAD Int. 2025.

. 2025 Jun 27:22:54-56.

doi: 10.1016/j.jdin.2025.06.001. eCollection 2025 Oct.

Ghizlane Yaakoubi¹, Maha Kazmi^{2

3}, Sarah Patterson⁴, Anna Haemel²

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed First University, Oujda, Morocco.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California.
⁴ Department of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Keywords: alternative medicine; complementary medicine; dermatomyositis; idiopathic inflammatory myopathy; integrative medicine; myositis.

Conflict of interest statement

AH is a consultant at CSL Behring and AstraZeneca, and an investigator for Priovant.

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