Muscle Weakness

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • (AI) Can't get off my chair. 
  • 3,4-diaminopyridine base effectively treats the weakness of Lambert-Eaton myasthenia. 
  • A 17-Year-Old Boy With Right Face Palsy, Left Leg Weakness, and Lytic Skull-Bone Lesions. 
  • A 78-year-old woman with leg pain and weakness. 
  • A case report of mevalonate kinase deficiency in a 14-month-old female with fevers and lower extremity weakness. 
  • A multinational study on motor function in early-onset FSHD. 
  • Acute skeletal muscle wasting and dysfunction predict physical disability at hospital discharge in patients with critical illness. 
  • Advances in autoimmune myasthenia gravis management. 
  • Alterations in inorganic phosphate in mouse hindlimb muscles during limb disuse. 
  • Associated symptoms in the ten days before diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. 
  • Bulbar muscle weakness and fatty lingual infiltration in glycogen storage disorder type IIIa. 
  • Burden of disease in adult patients with hypophosphatasia: Results from two patient-reported surveys. 
  • Cachexia and aging: an update based on the Fourth International Cachexia Meeting. 
  • Case 4: Weakness and Headaches in a 14-year-old Boy. 
  • Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 28-2005. A 42-year-old man with weight loss, weakness, and a rash. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Clinical and genetic characterization of manifesting carriers of DMD mutations. 
  • Clinical trial: interferon alpha-2b continuous long-term therapy vs. repeated 24-week cycles for re-treating chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Construction of an efficient evaluative instrument for myasthenia gravis: the MG composite. 
  • Correlates of ADL difficulty in a large hemodialysis cohort. 
  • Correlation between quantitative whole-body muscle magnetic resonance imaging and clinical muscle weakness in Pompe disease. 
  • Damage extent and predictors in adult and juvenile dermatomyositis and polymyositis as determined with the myositis damage index. 
  • Decompressive hemicraniectomy in pediatric patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology. 
  • Diagnostic criteria for late-onset (childhood and adult) Pompe disease. 
  • Distinguishing clinical and electrodiagnostic features of X-linked bulbospinal neuronopathy. 
  • Donor-site morbidity with use of vascularized autogenous fibular grafts. 
  • Expanding the phenotype of late-onset Pompe disease: tongue weakness: a new clinical observation. 
  • Feasibility and Functional Testing for Frailty in Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Focused rehabilitation treatment of poorly functioning total knee arthroplasties. 
  • Genotype-phenotype study in an FSHD family with a proximal deletion encompassing p13E-11 and D4Z4. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Hypoventilation syndrome in neuromuscular disorders. 
  • Improvement of bilateral ptosis on higher dose enzyme replacement therapy in Pompe disease. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Intraoperative acceleromyography monitoring reduces symptoms of muscle weakness and improves quality of recovery in the early postoperative period. 
  • Intravascular malignant lymphomatosis with neurologic presentation: factors facilitating antemortem diagnosis. 
  • Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome: clinical diagnosis, immune-mediated mechanisms, and update on therapies. 
  • Management of rocuronium neuromuscular block using a protocol for qualitative monitoring and reversal with neostigmine. 
  • Mechanisms of functional loss in patients with chronic lung disease. 
  • Median nerve injury as a result of medial brachial fascial compartment syndrome. 
  • Medical mystery--the answer revealed. 
  • Motor variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in a child. 
  • Muscle atrophy in patients receiving hemodialysis: effects on muscle strength, muscle quality, and physical function. 
  • Muscle mass and physical recovery in ICU: innovations for targeting of nutrition and exercise. 
  • Myasthenia gravis: diagnosis. 
  • Myasthenia gravis: management of myasthenic crisis and perioperative care. 
  • Myotilin is not the causative gene for vocal cord and pharyngeal weakness with distal myopathy (VCPDM). 
  • New onset focal weakness in children with Down syndrome. 
  • Nonoperative and operative management of snapping scapula. 
  • Novel congenital myopathy locus identified in Native American Indians at 12q13.13-14.1. 
  • Performance-enhancing sports supplements: role in critical care. 
  • Persistent systemic inflammation in chronic critical illness. 
  • Physical therapy assessment and whole-body magnetic resonance imaging findings in children with glycogen storage disease type IIIa: A clinical study and review of the literature. 
  • Physical therapy management of Pompe disease. 
  • Population Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics of 3,4-Diaminopyridine Free Base in Patients With Lambert-Eaton Myasthenia. 
  • Practical Recommendations for Diagnosis and Management of Respiratory Muscle Weakness in Late-Onset Pompe Disease. 
  • Prevalence and Correlates of Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Progressive Spinal Kyphosis in the Aging Population. 
  • Quantitative assessment of lingual strength in late-onset Pompe disease. 
  • Respiratory muscle training in late-onset Pompe disease: Results of a sham-controlled clinical trial. 
  • Rituximab in the treatment of refractory adult and juvenile dermatomyositis and adult polymyositis: a randomized, placebo-phase trial. 
  • Scurvy presenting with limp and weakness: a case report. 
  • Should Early Mobilization Be Routine in Mechanically Ventilated Patients? 
  • Skeletal muscle loss: cachexia, sarcopenia, and inactivity. 
  • Spinal accessory nerve lesions. 
  • Steroid treatment and the development of scoliosis in males with duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Symptomatic obstruction of the brachiocephalic and left subclavian arteries obscured by aortic stenosis. 
  • Takotsubo cardiomyopathy complicating thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • The Duke myasthenia gravis clinic registry: I. Description and demographics. 
  • The Manual Therapy and Strengthening for the Hip (MASH) Trial: Protocol for a Multisite Randomized Trial of a Subgroup of Older Adults With Chronic Back and Hip Pain. 
  • The emerging phenotype of long-term survivors with infantile Pompe disease. 
  • The management of myasthenia gravis in pregnancy. 
  • The relationship between adverse events during selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment for major depressive disorder and nonremission in the suicide assessment methodology study. 
  • Timed loaded standing: a measure of combined trunk and arm endurance suitable for people with vertebral osteoporosis. 
  • Tongue weakness and atrophy differentiates late-onset Pompe disease from other forms of acquired/hereditary myopathy. 
  • Trajectories of leg strength and gait speed among sedentary older adults: longitudinal pattern of dose response. 
  • Two children with "dropped head" syndrome due to lamin A/C mutations. 
  • Use of physical therapy in patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of generalized weakness: a retrospective study. 
  • Validation of the triple timed up-and-go test in Lambert-Eaton myasthenia. 
  • Weaning from mechanical ventilation. 
  • Which stroke symptoms prompt a 911 call? A population-based study. 
  • Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in late-onset Pompe disease: Clinical utility and correlation with functional measures. 
  • Winning the war against ICU-acquired weakness: new innovations in nutrition and exercise physiology. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cade, William Todd, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
  • Case, Laura Elizabeth, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Medical Genetics
  • Smith, Edward Clinton, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Neurology