Lack of cold sensitivity in hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii encysts in skeletal muscle. Although only rarely found at muscle biopsy, this parasite has previously been regarded as a possible cause of polymyositis. We report a case of biopsy-proven toxoplasmic myositis in a non-HIV-infected patient that led to recognition of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL)...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Plonquet A,Bassez G,Authier FJ,Dray JM,Farcet JP,Gherardi RK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the recording site on the motor unit potentials (MUPs) was investigated in the brachial biceps muscle of 8 healthy subjects. The MUPs were recorded with a concentric needle electrode and analyzed with a new decomposition EMG program we call multi-MUP analysis. MUPs had shorter durations and smaller am...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Falck B,Stålberg E,Bischoff C

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this investigation was to define the boundaries of compound motor action potential (CMAP) dispersion, amplitude decay, and area decay in a control population and determine their dependence on external variables such as age and interelectrode distance. Measurements were made from median, ulnar, and common pe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Taylor PK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder (gene CHS1/LYST) characterized by partial albinism, recurrent infections, and easy bruising. Survivors develop a constellation of slowly progressive neurological manifestations. METHODS:We describe clinical, laboratory, electrophys...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Faber IV,Prota JRM,Martinez ARM,Nucci A,Lopes-Cendes I,Júnior MCF

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We examined the effects of pain site and intensity on function in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and chronic pain. METHODS:Questionnaires assessing pain sites, pain extent (number of sites), pain intensity, and pain interference were complet...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Miró J,Gertz KJ,Carter GT,Jensen MP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Danon disease is a rare X-linked dominant disorder caused by lysosomal-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP2) deficiency and is characterized by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac conduction abnormalities, skeletal vacuolar myopathy, variable degree of mental retardation, and peripheral pigmentary retinopathy. We des...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nadeau A,Therrien C,Karpati G,Sinnreich M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a comprehensive model of spastic hypertonia based on clinical neurophysiology and validated using experimental data obtained from the pendulum test of the leg in 8 healthy volunteers and 15 spastic patients. This nonlinear computational model includes mechanical parameters and a stretch reflex representatio...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Le Cavorzin P,Poudens SA,Chagneau F,Carrault G,Allain H,Rochcongar P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enable the quantitative assessment of peripheral nerve structure and function, we determined the normal values for sural nerve hydration structure as measured by magnetic resonance proton imaging, and for neurological function with scores for neuropathic symptoms, signs, and nerve conduction properties. Normal huma...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eaton RP,Sibbitt WL Jr,Bicknell JM,King MK,Griffey RH,Sibbitt RR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case reports and open-label studies suggest that coenzyme Q(10) (CoQ(10)) treatment may have beneficial effects in mitochondrial disease patients; however, controlled trials are warranted to clinically prove its effectiveness. Thirty patients with mitochondrial cytopathy received 1200 mg/day CoQ(10) for 60 days in a r...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Glover EI,Martin J,Maher A,Thornhill RE,Moran GR,Tarnopolsky MA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the clinical features of patients with femoral neuropathy and the factors that influence the prognosis. Of 80 consecutive patients referred for neurophysiological evaluations of proximal lower limb weakness, 32 fulfilled strict inclusion criteria and had adequate information, including estimates of ax...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kuntzer T,van Melle G,Regli F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Requirements for ethical review of research involving human subjects are based on widely accepted international standards that are implemented by various national regulations and institutional policies. In the United States, most human research is reviewed by institutional review boards (IRBs) applying federal standar...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wagner RM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with adult-onset acid maltase deficiency (Pompe's disease) were examined clinically and with computed tomography (CT). The CT scan showed early and severe involvement of the muscles of trunk and thighs, with selective sparing of the tensor fasciae latae, short head of biceps femoris, gracilis, and sartor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： de Jager AE,van der Vliet TM,van der Ree TC,Oosterink BJ,Loonen MC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is a well-established clinical assessment of functional endurance, validated as a measure of walking ability in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The current availability of disease-modifying therapies for SMA indicates a growing need for normative reference data to compare SMA p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Goodwin AM,Cornett KMD,McKay MJ,Burns J,Garber CE,De Vivo DC,Montes J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the following ideas have been expressed: (a) that all cases of a discrete, inherited neuromuscular syndrome should prove to be due to a single biochemical defect, (b) that any single biochemical defect should give rise only to one syndrome, and (c) that an enzymatic defect cannot give rise to a diseas...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kark RA,Becker DM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the effect of low temperature on the peripheral nervous system has been systematically studied, the effect of high temperature has not. We investigated the effect of elevating limb temperature from 32 degrees C to 42 degrees C by performing sequential motor studies, antidromic sensory studies, and 3-Hz repeti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rutkove SB,Kothari MJ,Shefner JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare electromyogram (EMG) and acoustic myogram (AMG) recordings of biceps brachii muscles in patients with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). The maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) in the CP group was approximately one half of that of the normal group even after being normalized by the muscle ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Akataki K,Mita K,Itoh K,Suzuki N,Watakabe M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statins can induce necrotizing or inflammatory myopathies in some patients. Increased major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC I) expression has been shown in muscle biopsies of statin-induced myopathy. Therefore, we investigated the effect of statins on the expression of MHC I in muscle cells. Using flow cytomet...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Singh P,Kohr D,Kaps M,Blaes F

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic findings of fibrillations and positive sharp waves in the lumbosacral paraspinals in patients without previous back surgery has been generally considered to be abnormal, consistent with posterior rami denervation. In some cases, it is the only abnormality on the electromyographic examination. This st...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Date ES,Mar EY,Bugola MR,Teraoka JK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we questioned whether local cooling of muscle or heating involving core and muscle temperatures are the main indicators for force variability. METHODS:Ten volunteers performed a 2-min maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) of the knee extensors under control (CON) conditions after passive heat...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brazaitis M,Skurvydas A,Pukėnas K,Daniuseviciūtė L,Mickevicienė D,Solianik R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation was applied daily for 20 minutes to denervated rabbit extensor digitorum longus muscle. One group was stimulated with short tetani, another with 1-Hz frequency, using isometric contractions for both. Tetanic stimulation induced severe fibrosis and is harmful to denervated muscle. One Hertz stimu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nix WA,Dahm M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle fatigue or neuromuscular disease may result in central activation failure during maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs). Superimposition of an electrically stimulated contraction during an MVC has been used to detect central activation failure. To determine the most sensitive means of quantitating central activa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kent-Braun JA,Le Blanc R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although serum creatine kinase (CK) levels are frequently modestly elevated in patients with hypothyroid myopathy, elevations in serum CK to the levels usually seen in inflammatory myopathies or dystrophies are rare. We report a patient with progressive proximal weakness and a serum CK level of over 29,000 IU/L, in wh...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Scott KR,Simmons Z,Boyer PJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), showing an early-onset and a fatal outcome before age 30. Transthyretin (TTR) gene analysis showed one point mutation (T-->C change) in the second base of codon 55, and the corresponding amino acid substitution of proline (Pro) for leucine (Leu) was confir...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yamamoto K,Hsu SP,Yoshida K,Ikeda S,Nakazato M,Shiomi K,Cheng SY,Furihata K,Ueno I,Yanagisawa N

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is a useful tool in the treatment of a variety of neuromuscular disorders. Though IVIg therapy is generally safe, hemolytic anemia is a potentially serious complication that is often overlooked, and is currently not listed in product inserts. We analyzed 45 patients who received IVIg ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wilson JR,Bhoopalam H,Fisher M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired torque production is a major physical impairment following stroke, and has been studied extensively in isometric conditions. However, functional use of a limb requires torque production during movement, and the effects of velocity on maximal torque production may be abnormally enhanced in the paretic limb. Th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lum PS,Patten C,Kothari D,Yap R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct infection of muscle fibers by human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) has recently been reported in a patient with polymyositis infected with both HTLV-I and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Coinfections of these viruses are frequently found in the United States. In Kagoshima, Japan, patients with polymyo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Higuchi I,Nerenberg M,Yoshimine K,Yoshida M,Fukunaga H,Tajima K,Osame M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the brachial plexus increased signal intensity and swelling of the brachial plexus has been found in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Whether these proximal abnormalities are also present in the distal polyneuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy i...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eurelings M,Notermans NC,Franssen H,Van Es HW,Ramos LM,Wokke JH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dropped head syndrome occurs in a variety of neuromuscular disorders. We present a woman with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy who developed this syndrome, likely reflecting severe demyelination of nerves to cervical paraspinal muscles. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hoffman D,Gutmann L

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the peak voltage induced in a sensing loop by a Magstim 200 magnetic stimulator. Coil output varied little for repeated stimulation at the same intensity over a wide range of coil output. In contrast, the first stimulus immediately after a change in intensity was of larger amplitude and showed greater vari...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Reutens DC,MacDonell RA,Berkovic SF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values obtained from two different macro EMG methods were compared, and found to be different. Normally, macro electromyography (EMG) is performed with a modified single fiber (SF) needle using the SF potential as a trigger; a new method recommends a modified concentric needle and triggers on the concentric EMG si...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nix WA,Scherer A

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00