Familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Taiwan: identification of transthyretin variant (Leu55-->Pro).

abstract：:Little attention has been paid to small-fiber dysfunction in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) although its symptoms are common. This study investigates vasomotor dysfunction, which is controlled by small nerve fibers, in patients with CTS compared with control subjects. Vasomotor function was quantified by measuring, with...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wilder-Smith EP,Fook-Chong S,Chew SE,Chow A,Guo Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which sensory nerve conduction studies (S-NCS) are helpful in detecting supraclavicular axon loss brachial plexopathies, we selected 53 cases (of 417 reviewed) in whom complicating factors were absent and which, by needle electrode examination findings, involved only a single "truncal" element (upper, mid...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ferrante MA,Wilbourn AJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Muscle fiber denervation increases with age, yet studies at the tissue level are sparse due to the challenging nature of establishing the relative role of regeneration and denervation. METHODS:Muscle biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis of 70 healthy men (aged 72 ± 6 years; range, 65-94). Mess...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Soendenbroe C,Heisterberg MF,Schjerling P,Karlsen A,Kjaer M,Andersen JL,Mackey AL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local cooling of the muscle resulted in significant increases in M wave surface areas in patients with ALS, myasthenia gravis, the Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and also in controls. The most striking increases were seen in patients with early ALS who had minimal lower motor neuron involvement and/or little defec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Denys EH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to determine the patterns of responses for the electromyographic (EMG) amplitude vs. oxygen uptake ( V̇O2 ) relationships from muscles of the quadriceps femoris and hamstrings during incremental treadmill running. METHODS:Twelve men volunteered to perform an incremental test to e...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Camic CL,Kovacs AJ,Enquist EA,McLain TA,Hill EC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) generally presents sporadically. Epidemics of GBS are unusual. We reviewed the medical records of 26 patients hospitalized for GBS during the 2007 GBS epidemic in northeast China. The objective was to determine whether there were clinical and electrophysiological characteristics. All pati...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ye Y,Zhu D,Wang K,Wu J,Feng J,Ma D,Xing Y,Jiang X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic studies were analyzed in patients with neuropathy associated with IgM monoclonal proteins, 7 with anti-myelin associated glycoprotein reactivity (MAG) and 7 nonreactive to MAG. The findings were distinctly different in the two groups. The electrodiagnostic studies of all the MAG-reactive patients had...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kelly JJ Jr

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left spinal accessory nerve palsy occurred in a young man when he quickly turned his head to the right while his shoulders were pulled down by heavy hand-held objects. Electrophysiologic studies demonstrated partial axonotmesis of the spinal accessory nerve branches innervating the sternocleidomastoid and upper and mi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Logigian EL,McInnes JM,Berger AR,Busis NA,Lehrich JR,Shahani BT

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with demyelinating neurological disease, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or multiple sclerosis, contains factors that inhibit the excitatory Na+ current. Such antiexcitatory factors are occasionally also detectable in CSF from patients with other neurological diseases but were...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brinkmeier H,Seewald MJ,Wollinsky KH,Rüdel R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Force fluctuations in leg muscles increase after bedrest, perhaps due to modulation of the neural strategy that is specific to a muscle or common to agonist muscles. The purpose of this study was to examine the modulation of muscle activity and force fluctuations during steady contractions with variable involvement of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yoshitake Y,Kouzaki M,Fukuoka H,Fukunaga T,Shinohara M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), a syndrome characterized by progressive asymmetric weakness with intact sensation, is important because the disorder often responds to treatment. Multifocal partial motor conduction block (PMCB) has been emphasized as a cardinal feature in the diagnosis of this syndrome,...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chaudhry V,Corse AM,Cornblath DR,Kuncl RW,Freimer ML,Griffin JW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Immune-mediated myopathies are a heterogeneous group of chronic autoimmune disorders. Autoantibodies associated with this disease complex are classified into myositis-associated and myositis-specific. Anti-tRNA synthetase antibodies are the most well known of the myositis-specific antibodies. Previous repo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mehndiratta P,Mehta S,Manjila SV,Kammer GM,Cohen ML,Preston DC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological studies were performed on the ventral tail nerve of adult rats following intraperitoneal injection of a crude extract of ciguatoxin from known toxic fish flesh. Ciguatoxin induced significant slowing of both mixed and motor nerve conduction velocities and also significant reductions in both motor ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Cameron J,Flowers AE,Capra MF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders, all of which have in common compression of one or more neurovascular elements at some point within the thoracic outlet. Of the five disorders comprising this group, four have all of the features expected of a syndrome-a recognized co...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ferrante MA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to determine which muscles to choose for better assessment of the craniobulbar region in establishing the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:We studied the frontalis muscle in 83 controls and compared it with the tongue, sternocleidomastoid (SCM), and trapezius muscles in ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pan H,Jian F,Lin J,Chen N,Zhang Z,Wang Y,Cui L,Kimura J

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Although it has been shown that muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) improves the phenotypic characterization of patients with neuromuscular disorders and allows accurate quantification of muscle and adipose tissue distribution, to date quantitative MRI has not been used to assess the therapeutic response in clinic...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pichiecchio A,Poloni GU,Ravaglia S,Ponzio M,Germani G,Maranzana D,Costa A,Repetto A,Tavazzi E,Danesino C,Moglia A,Bastianello S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An appreciation of the comparative functions of the corticospinal tract is of direct relevance to the understanding of how results from animal models can advance knowledge of the human motor system and its disorders. Two critical functions of the corticospinal tract are discussed: first, the role of descending project...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lemon RN,Griffiths J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with clinical vermiform motor activity, muscle cramps, delayed relaxation of grip, and continuous motor unit discharges who developed mild symmetric symptoms in the upper extremities following a viral infection. Treatment with carbamazepine produced considerable symptomatic improvement. Needle elec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Tandan R,Fries TJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We quantified intraneural blood flow (INBF) in 18 patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and examined its relationship with nerve size, neuropathy severity, and nerve excitability parameters. METHODS:Sonographic measurements of the median nerve were performed at the same site before and after hemod...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Borire AA,Arnold R,Pussell BA,Kwai NC,Visser LH,Simon NG,Kiernan MC,Krishnan AV

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose gap and intra-axonal recording techniques were used to identify the types of ion channels and inward rectification that are present in regenerated axons of adult (greater than 8 weeks) rat sciatic nerve after crush injury. In sucrose gap recordings, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) led to slight broadening of the compou...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gordon TR,Kocsis JD,Waxman SG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:When treating ocular myasthenia gravis (MG), the risk/benefit profile of corticosteroids is unclear, and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are not very effective. We examined the efficacy of topical naphazoline in the treatment of myasthenic blepharoptosis. METHODS:Sixty MG patients with blepharoptosis (32 ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nagane Y,Utsugisawa K,Suzuki S,Masuda M,Shimizu Y,Utsumi H,Uchiyama S,Suzuki N

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Electrical stimulation of denervated muscle has been shown to minimize atrophy and fibrosis and increase force in animal and human models. However, electrical stimulation after nerve repair is controversial due to questions of efficacy. METHODS:Using a rat model, we investigated the efficacy of short-term...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Willand MP,Holmes M,Bain JR,Fahnestock M,De Bruin H

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on the distribution of labeled endogenous proteins in the experimental neuropathies induced by streoptozotocin diabetes, galactose feeding, zinc pyridinethione, 2,5-hexanedione, acrylamide, and p-bromophenylacetylurea (BPAU) have demonstrated an impaired build up of retrogradely transported material der...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Jakobsen J,Brimijoin S,Sidenius P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the reorganization of health-care settings affecting clinical care delivery to patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) as well as other inherited muscular dystrophies. The magnitude of the impact of this public health emergency on the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Veerapandiyan A,Wagner KR,Apkon S,McDonald CM,Mathews KD,Parsons JA,Wong BL,Eichinger K,Shieh PB,Butterfield RJ,Rao VK,Smith EC,Proud CM,Connolly AM,Ciafaloni E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the blood level of creatine kinase (CK) is the most commonly used marker of muscle injury, there is marked interindividual variability in this measure. Part of this variability may be attributed to variability in the rate of CK clearance from the circulation. In this study, we assessed the possibility that CK...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Warren GL,O'farrell L,Rogers KR,Billings KM,Sayers SP,Clarkson PM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of extensive studies it is unclear whether impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), i.e., impaired glucose metabolism (IGM), causes diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) or chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP); the results and conclusions vary considerably in differ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dyck PJ,Dyck PJ,Klein CJ,Weigand SD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Symptoms often return in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) who are treated with a local corticosteroid injection. We aimed to determine prognostic factors for a successful long-term outcome. METHODS:We prospectively followed 113 patients who received an injection for CTS. Clinical, electrophysiol...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Meys V,Thissen S,Rozeman S,Beekman R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen steady progress in the identification of genetic muscle diseases as well as efforts to develop treatment for these diseases. Consequently, sensitive and objective new methods are required to identify and monitor muscle pathology. Magnetic resonance imaging offers multiple potential biomarkers of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Leung DG

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with myasthenia gravis were studied. Needle interference patterns at maximal isometric contractions were recorded from the biceps brachii muscles. Each recording lasted for 30 seconds and induced some fatigue. The EMG signals were transformed into power spectra and were analyzed for differences between...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yaar I,Mitz AR,Pottala EW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00