Hemolytic anemia associated with intravenous immunoglobulin.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Diagnosis of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) remains uncertain when nerve conduction studies (NCS) fail to show demyelination. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective study of patients who presented with clinical criteria of CIDP in whom electrodiagnostic (EDx) criteria of definite o...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Devic P,Petiot P,Mauguiere F

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Mutations in CLCN1, the gene encoding the ClC-1 chloride channel in skeletal muscle, lead to myotonia congenita. The effects on the intramembranous channel forming domains have been investigated more than that at the intracellular C-terminus. We have performed a mutation screen involving the whole CLCN1 gene of patien...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chen L,Schaerer M,Lu ZH,Lang D,Joncourt F,Weis J,Fritschi J,Kappeler L,Gallati S,Sigel E,Burgunder JM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by autoantibodies against presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels that impair neuromuscular transmission. Malignancies, especially small cell lung cancer (SCLC), have been associated with LEMS and account for approximately 60% of cases...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wang C,Chen S,Feng B,Guan Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is generally associated with proximal weakness and muscle wasting. An X-linked variant with calf hypertrophy has been reported. We describe a young man with SMA type 4 with prominent calf hypertrophy in whom DNA analysis showed a homozygous deletion of exons 7 and 8 in the telomeric copy ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yiu EM,Ravat S,Ryan MM,Shield LK,Smith LJ,Kornberg AJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to define the whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) fingerprint of muscle involvement in pediatric LMNA-related dystrophy (LMNA-RD) and to compare it with SEPN1-related myopathy (SEPN1-RM). METHODS:Signal abnormality and atrophy in 109 muscles were scored by semiquantitative scales in 8 children with LMNA-RD ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gómez-Andrés D,Dabaj I,Mompoint D,Hankiewicz K,Azzi V,Ioos C,Romero NB,Ben Yaou R,Bergounioux J,Bonne G,Richard P,Estournet B,Yves-Carlier R,Quijano-Roy S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to propose appropriate treatment targets for patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). METHODS:We evaluated 640 consecutive patients with MG seen at 11 neurological centers. Two-year follow-up data were obtaine...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Utsugisawa K,Suzuki S,Nagane Y,Masuda M,Murai H,Imai T,Tsuda E,Konno S,Nakane S,Suzuki Y,Fujihara K,Suzuki N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal myositis is a rare inflammatory pseudotumor of skeletal muscle which usually has a benign course. We report a 56-year-old woman with a painful mass in the left arm with a radial nerve palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the left arm showed a mass in the triceps muscle that was suggestive of a soft-tissue ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Alzagatiti BI,Bertorini TE,Horner LH,Maccarino VS,O'Brien T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of differences in motor unit activity across contraction types and between hands suggests that the magnitude of fluctuations in motor output is only weakly related when these conditions are compared. Twenty right-handed young (24.1 +/- 5.3 years) and old (72.5 +/- 4.9 years) adults performed three levels ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Shinohara M,Keenan KG,Enoka RM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the contributions of neural and mechanical mechanisms to the limits in the range of motion (ROM) about a joint, we studied the effects of 30 sessions of static stretch training on the characteristics of the plantar-flexor muscles in 12 subjects. Changes in the maximal ankle dorsiflexion and the torque pro...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guissard N,Duchateau J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technical and instrumentation factors play an important role in obtaining reliable information during electrodiagnostic studies. With contemporary electrodiagnostic equipment, neurophysiologic potentials are detected using a variety of electrodes and undergo differential amplification, filtering, conversion to digital...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gitter AJ,Stolov WC

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purposes of this study were to (1) develop a fatigue threshold based on electromyography (EMG) and heart rate (HR) responses for treadmill running from a single incremental test; and (2) propose a new fatigue threshold called the RV(EMGFT) and RV(HRFT). METHODS:Eleven men performed incremental treadmi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guffey DR,Gervasi BJ,Maes AA,Malek MH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superficial peroneal nerve subserves sensation on the entire surface of the dorsum of the foot, except in small areas. All previously reported techniques for evaluating nerve conduction along this nerve tested a proximal portion of the nerve. We report a new method for evaluating sensory nerve conduction of the fo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oh SJ,Demirci M,Dajani B,Melo AC,Claussen GC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Median neuropathies proximal to the wrist are uncommon and usually result from penetrating injuries, fracture dislocation of the distal humerus, or compression by fibrous bands. A 66-year-old man suffered a comminuted fracture of the proximal humerus after a fall. Electrodiagnostic studies revealed a severe proximal m...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Veilleux M,Richardson P

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Meralgia paresthetica is a focal neuropathy caused by compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN). The disease can be difficult to assess by neurophysiological or imaging studies. METHODS:We studied 5 patients who presented to our neuromuscular clinic from April 2012 to December 2014 with a ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wongmek A,Shin S,Zhou L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We examined the extent to which fatiguing cycling exercise in the heat influences contractile function in modulating the force-frequency relationship. METHODS:Before (∽37.0 °C) and after (∽38.5 °C) exercise (ExH) and passive (PaH) hyperthermia, an 8-s train of stimulation at 10, 20, 50, and 100 Hz (2 s pe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Périard JD,Racinais S,Thompson MW

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Posttraumatic elbow contracture is clinically challenging because injury often disrupts multiple periarticular soft tissues. Tissue specific contribution to contracture, particularly muscle, remains poorly understood. METHODS:In this study we used a previously developed animal model of elbow contracture. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dunham CL,Chamberlain AM,Meyer GA,Lake SP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM), characterized by severe hypotonia, weakness, respiratory distress, and early mortality, is rare and natural history studies are few. METHODS:RECENSUS is a multicenter chart review of male XLMTM patients characterizing disease burden and unmet medical needs. Data were ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Beggs AH,Byrne BJ,De Chastonay S,Haselkorn T,Hughes I,James ES,Kuntz NL,Simon J,Swanson LC,Yang ML,Yu ZF,Yum SW,Prasad S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old Haitian man had a sore throat with a marked tonsillar exudate followed by the onset of increasingly blurred vision with swallowing difficulties and, then, a diffuse acute demyelinating neuropathy. Cerebrospinal fluid showed moderate pleiocytosis and elevated protein content. Serological testing for dipht...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Créange A,Meyrignac C,Roualdes B,Degos JD,Gherardi RK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether initial muscle length influenced the extent of isometric force deficit following 20 in vitro lengthening contractions of the soleus muscle from Fischer 344 rats. Force deficit was evaluated following one of five protocols: (1) lengthening contractions from optimal mus...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gosselin LE,Burton H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise intolerance with myalgia, muscle stiffness, and recurrent rhabdomyolysis due to mutations in the DMD gene can mimic metabolic myopathies leading to delayed or inaccurate diagnoses. In this retrospective chart review, we report 3 unrelated boys with exertional myalgia, muscle stiffness, myoglobinuria, and norm...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Veerapandiyan A,Shashi V,Jiang YH,Gallentine WB,Schoch K,Smith EC

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least 50 disease-causing mutations in the skeletal muscle voltage-gated chloride channel gene (CLCN1), almost all of which originate from Caucasian families, have been identified. We investigated a Japanese family with Thomsen's myotonia congenita that included 16 affected individuals (8 men and 8 women) through fi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sasaki R,Ito N,Shimamura M,Murakami T,Kuzuhara S,Uchino M,Uyama E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to compare median nerve elasticity between leprosy patients (LPs) and healthy volunteers (HVs) using ultrasound elastography (UE). METHODS:Two radiologists independently measured the strain ratio of the median nerve/flexor digitorum superficialis muscle (MN/FDSM) of 18 LP and 18 HV using real-ti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nogueira-Barbosa MH,Lugão HB,Gregio-Júnior E,Crema MD,Kobayashi MTT,Frade MAC,Pavan TZ,Carneiro AAO

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to compare ultrasound echo intensity (EI) with high-resolution T1 -weighted MRI and to establish calibration equations to estimate percent intramuscular fat from EI. METHODS:Thirty-one participants underwent both ultrasound and MRI testing of 4 muscles: rectus femoris (RF); bicep...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Young HJ,Jenkins NT,Zhao Q,Mccully KK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound has been used for visualizing peripheral nerve pathology. Our goal was to use ultrasound to quantitate the sizes of upper extremity nerves along their length in control subjects and patients with neuropathy. We measured median and ulnar nerve cross-sectional areas (NCSA) in the arms of 190 subjects, includi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Zaidman CM,Al-Lozi M,Pestronk A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) is typified as isolated nerve palsies caused by trivial compression or trauma. It rarely presents in two extremities and even more infrequently affects all four limbs simultaneously. We present a patient who concurrently experienced right shoulder, left han...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Crum BA,Sorenson EJ,Abad GA,Dyck PJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ability to individualize recommendations or expectations of disease progression based on a patient's unique characteristics has merit for use in sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM). METHODS:Fifty-five subjects with sIBM completed a battery of strength and functional outcomes at 2 study visits. The...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Alfano LN,Yin H,Dvorchik I,Maus EG,Flanigan KM,Mendell JR,Lowes LP

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and neurophysiological features of multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) indicate selective involvement of motor axons, but pathological abnormalities in sensory axons suggest a more widespread disease process. The present study was undertaken to determine whether the focal abnormalities are associated with w...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Cappelen-Smith C,Kuwabara S,Lin CS,Burke D

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 37-year-old Afghani man with a history of childhood diphtheria, who was diagnosed with bilateral vocal cord paralysis at age 15 years. At about this time he developed progressive muscular wasting and distally predominant weakness, and subsequently developed respiratory insufficiency, necessita...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Reichler BD,Scelsa SN,Simpson DM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Accuracy of needle electromyography is typically ensured by use of anatomical landmarks and auditory feedback related to voluntary activation of the targeted muscle; however, in certain clinical situations, landmarks may not be palpable, auditory feedback may be limited or not present, and targeting a spec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Boon AJ,Oney-Marlow TM,Murthy NS,Harper CM,McNamara TR,Smith J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00