Muscular Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A defect in myoblast fusion underlies Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome. 
  • A splice junction mutation in a new myopathic variant of phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency (PGK North Carolina). 
  • A system to monitor statin-induced myopathy in individual engineered skeletal muscle myobundles. 
  • AAV9 gene replacement therapy for respiratory insufficiency in very-long chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. 
  • Ablation of steroid receptor coactivator-3 resembles the human CACT metabolic myopathy. 
  • Abnormal postnatal maintenance of elevated DLK1 transcript levels in callipyge sheep. 
  • Adaptive immune response to therapy in hmgcr autoantibody myopathy. 
  • American College of Rheumatology Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: Version 4. 
  • Amyloid myopathy presenting with respiratory failure. 
  • Analysis of amplitude and area of concentric needle EMG motor unit action potentials. 
  • Anesthetic management of a ventilator-dependent parturient with the King-Denborough syndrome. 
  • Angiopoietin-1 enhances skeletal muscle regeneration in mice. 
  • Are hepatic and muscle T2 values different at 0.5 and 1.5 Tesla? 
  • Automatic analysis of the electromyographic interference pattern using the turns: amplitude ratio. 
  • BAG3 (Bcl-2-Associated Athanogene-3) Coding Variant in Mice Determines Susceptibility to Ischemic Limb Muscle Myopathy by Directing Autophagy. 
  • Bedside ultrasound measurement of skeletal muscle. 
  • Biomarker Profile of Left Atrial Myopathy in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights From the RELAX Trial. 
  • Cholesterol rethink for high-risk patients. 
  • Chronic myopathy due to immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis. 
  • Collagenolytic activity of the skin associated with neuromuscular diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Combination drug therapy for combined hyperlipidemia. 
  • Comparison of transurethral versus periurethral collagen injection in women with intrinsic sphincter deficiency. 
  • Cross-sectional imaging of abnormalities of the abdominal wall in pediatric patients. 
  • Delayed myonecrosis in a leukemic patient with invasive group A streptococcal disease. 
  • Diagnosis of late-onset Pompe disease and other muscle disorders by next-generation sequencing. 
  • Dislocating medial triceps and ulnar neuropathy in three generations of one family. 
  • Distal vacuolar myopathy with complete heart block. 
  • Early detection measures and triage procedures for suicide ideation in chronic pain patients. 
  • Effect of oxidative stress on homer scaffolding proteins. 
  • Efficacy and Tolerability of Evolocumab vs Ezetimibe in Patients With Muscle-Related Statin Intolerance: The GAUSS-3 Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Efficacy and tolerability of lovastatin in 3390 women with moderate hypercholesterolemia. 
  • Electrophysiological findings in X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy. 
  • Enzyme elevation in patients with juvenile dermatomyositis and steroid myopathy. 
  • Evaluation of a course for general practitioners on muscles and joints. 
  • Evaluation of an automatic method of measuring features of motor unit action potentials. 
  • Exercise attenuates the weight-loss-induced reduction in muscle mass in frail obese older adults. 
  • Expression quantitative trait locus analysis identifies novel genes for statin myopathy. 
  • Extranodal Castleman disease of the extremities: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Familial X-linked myalgia and cramps: a nonprogressive myopathy associated with a deletion in the dystrophin gene. 
  • Familial visceral myopathy. 
  • Final conclusions and recommendations of the National Lipid Association Statin Safety Assessment Task Force. 
  • Functional problems and treatment solutions after total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Glycogen storage disease type III (glycogen debranching enzyme deficiency): correlation of biochemical defects with myopathy and cardiomyopathy. 
  • Granular cell tumors of the extremities. 
  • Health care utilization for musculoskeletal back disorders, Washington State union carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • Identification of the single base change causing the callipyge muscle hypertrophy phenotype, the only known example of polar overdominance in mammals. 
  • Imaging of recurrent intramuscular granulomatous masses induced by depot injection of leuprorelin. 
  • Impaired growth and force production in skeletal muscles of young partially pancreatectomized rats: a model of adolescent type 1 diabetic myopathy? 
  • In patients at high CV risk receiving simvastatin, the Myopathy Risk Score predicted statin-related myopathy. 
  • Intermittent nondaily dosing strategies in patients with previous statin-induced myopathy. 
  • Intramuscular myxoma. Radiographic and computed tomographic findings with pathologic correlation. 
  • Lean body mass should not be used as a surrogate measurement of muscle mass in malnourished men and women: Comment on Compher et al. 
  • Levator ani abnormality 6 weeks after delivery persists at 6 months. 
  • Levator ani denervation and reinnervation 6 months after childbirth. 
  • Long-term Safety and Efficacy of Achieving Very Low Levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol : A Prespecified Analysis of the IMPROVE-IT Trial. 
  • MR features of soft-tissue abnormalities due to acute marrow infarction in five children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Measurement of ocular torsion after macular translocation: disc fovea angle and Maddox rod. 
  • Metabolic myopathies: clinical features and diagnostic approach. 
  • Modeling statin myopathy in a human skeletal muscle microphysiological system. 
  • Multivariate discriminant analysis of the electromyographic interference pattern: statistical approach to discrimination among controls, myopathies and neuropathies. 
  • Muscle Complaints or Events in Patients Randomized to Simvastatin or Ezetimibe/Simvastatin. 
  • Muscle giants: molecular scaffolds in sarcomerogenesis. 
  • Muscle stiffness and oral pentazocine. 
  • Musculoskeletal syndromes associated with malignancy. 
  • Myopathy in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children receiving long-term zidovudine therapy. 
  • Narrowing in on the causative defect of an intriguing X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy. 
  • Natural Progression of Canine Glycogen Storage Disease Type IIIa. 
  • Nemaline myopathy associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Outcomes and Complications in Management of Congenital Myopathy Early-Onset Scoliosis. 
  • Pelvic muscle electromyography of levator ani and external anal sphincter in nulliparous women and women with pelvic floor dysfunction. 
  • Phenotype standardization for statin-induced myotoxicity. 
  • Posterior tibial tendon dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Prevention of Reperfusion Injury in Skeletal Muscle. 
  • Previously unreported adverse reaction to encainide. 
  • Prognosis for psychophysiologic disorders in the naval service. 
  • Pseudometabolic presentation of dystrophinopathy due to a missense mutation. 
  • Pseudothyrotoxic myopathy: a complication of thionamide therapy in hyperthyroidism. 
  • Recent advances for measurement of protein synthesis rates, use of the 'Virtual Biopsy' approach, and measurement of muscle mass. 
  • Relationship between fat-to-fat-free mass ratio and decrements in leg strength after downhill running. 
  • Riboflavin-responsive multiple acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency presenting as a proximal myopathy in a young adult. 
  • Self-reported pain and disability outcomes from an endogenous model of muscular back pain. 
  • Serum enzyme alterations in hypothyroidism before and after treatment. 
  • Simulation of myopathic motor unit action potentials. 
  • Simultaneous thigh muscle metastasis from lung cancer and Escherichia coli gas producing myonecrosis. 
  • Statin Safety and Associated Adverse Events: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Statin safety: an assessment using an administrative claims database. 
  • Statins, exercise, and skeletal muscle. 
  • Striated muscle function, regeneration, and repair. 
  • Synergizing Engineering and Biology to Treat and Model Skeletal Muscle Injury and Disease 
  • Systemic correction of the muscle disorder glycogen storage disease type II after hepatic targeting of a modified adenovirus vector encoding human acid-alpha-glucosidase. 
  • Targeted Re-Sequencing Emulsion PCR Panel for Myopathies: Results in 94 Cases. 
  • The 2011 ACR meeting: what's new in the Windy City. 
  • The Composition, Development, and Regeneration of Neuromuscular Junctions. 
  • The SLCO1B1*5 genetic variant is associated with statin-induced side effects. 
  • The clinical pharmacogenetics implementation consortium guideline for SLCO1B1 and simvastatin-induced myopathy: 2014 update. 
  • The clinical pharmacogenomics implementation consortium: CPIC guideline for SLCO1B1 and simvastatin-induced myopathy. 
  • The electrodiagnostic characteristics of Glycogen Storage Disease Type III. 
  • The etiology and reversibility of muscle dysfunction in the aged. 
  • The junctophilin family of proteins: from bench to bedside. 
  • The management of soft-tissue problems associated with calcaneal fractures. 
  • The more the merrier? 
  • The role of an autoantigen, histidyl-tRNA synthetase, in the induction and maintenance of autoimmunity. 
  • The standardization of terminology for researchers in female pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Tissue-Engineered Human Myobundle System as a Platform for Evaluation of Skeletal Muscle Injury Biomarkers. 
  • Tongue weakness and atrophy differentiates late-onset Pompe disease from other forms of acquired/hereditary myopathy. 
  • Weaning from mechanical ventilation. 
  • Wegener's granulomatosis: prospective clinical and therapeutic experience with 85 patients for 21 years. 
  • Winning the war against ICU-acquired weakness: new innovations in nutrition and exercise physiology. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Lagoo, Anand Shreeram, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Smith, Edward Clinton, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Neurology