Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders that share similar
clinical features and dystrophic changes on muscle biopsy. An improved understanding of …

Interest in muscle MRI has been largely stimulated in the last few years by the recognition of
an increasing number of genetic defects in the field of inherited neuromuscular disorders …

Deficits in the ankle plantarflexor muscles, such as weakness and contracture, occur
commonly in conditions such as cerebral palsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy, Charcot-Marie …

Background Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is associated with severe, progressive muscle
weakness and typically leads to death between the ages of 20 and 35 years. By inducing …

Driven by increasing numbers of newly identified genetic defects and new insights into the
field of inherited muscle diseases, neuromuscular imaging in general and magnetic …

The limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a group of genetically heterogeneous,
autosomal inherited muscular dystrophies with a childhood to adult onset, manifesting with …

Background and objective Dysferlinopathies are a group of muscle disorders caused by
mutations in the DYSF gene. Previous muscle imaging studies describe a selective pattern …

Muscle MRI has become a very useful tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with
muscle dystrophies. Muscle MRI provides us about many aspects of the structure and …

Introduction: In sporadic inclusion‐body myositis (IBM), additional tools are needed to
confirm the diagnosis, particularly in clinically atypical or pathologically unproven patients …

A paediatric and adult whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) protocol using a 1.5-T MRI system was
used to examine 117 individuals (106 patients, 11 asymptomatic relatives). Genetic …