Myopathies are a group of disorders that are characterized by a primary structural or functional impairment of the skeletal muscle. These diseases usually affect muscles without involving the nervous ...

A team of researchers has developed a promising new approach to detecting neuromuscular disorders using intramuscular electromyography (iEMG). In a pilot study, the automatic diagnostic system showed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — The use of electromyograms and nerve conduction studies are essential to excluding alternative ...

The clinical diagnosis of sIBM is confirmed by muscle biopsy, and is aided by electromyography (EMG) and determination of serum muscle enzyme levels. Creatine kinase levels can initially be elevated ...

The histopathological studies of affected skeletal muscle biopsies from seven patients revealed focal disorganization of myofibrils, accumulation of granulofilamentous material and/or deposition of ...

Myopathy describes disorders of the muscles that cause them to function less effectively. Myopathies can be inherited or acquired, and the symptoms may be present from birth or develop later on.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

Purpose: Glycogen Storage Disease Type III, also known as debrancher deficiency or Cori disease, is an autosomal recessive disorder recognized for both its hepatic and muscle manifestations. The ...

For patients with systemic sclerosis, myopathy is a risk factor for worse outcomes and survival, according to a recent study. Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) as well as myopathy had more severe ...

History gathering should solicit the patient’s abilities or limitations with these activities of daily living (ADLs). The patient may have mild arthralgias. Lungs are the most common extra muscular ...

Quadriceps-sparing myopathy is the name formerly used for the commonest clinical condition among a group of syndromes called the hereditary inclusion body myopathies (HIBM). They are characterized by ...