The life expectancy of patients with dermatomyositis cannot be generalized. It is mainly related to the severity of the patient’s condition, the presence of complications and whether the treatment is standardized and timely.
1. If the condition of dermatomyositis patients is more serious and involves the heart, patients may have heart failure, cardiac conduction abnormalities and arrhythmia.
2. If patients with dermatomyositis are combined with tumors. Such as ovarian cancer, lung cancer and other malignant tumors, it is easy to threaten the patient’s life.
3. If patients with dermatomyositis are combined with respiratory muscle involvement, respiratory distress can also occur and affect the patient’s life expectancy, and interstitial pneumonia can also gradually progress and affect the patient’s life expectancy.
If patients with dermatomyositis can be detected, diagnosed and treated early when the disease is relatively mild, it is possible to work and live as normal.
It is recommended that patients with dermatomyositis go to the rheumatology and immunology department and follow the doctor’s instructions for standardized treatment, so as to avoid delaying the condition.