Quantifying fat replacement of muscle by quantitative MRI in muscular dystrophy

J Burakiewicz, CDJ Sinclair, D Fischer, GA Walter… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The muscular dystrophies are rare orphan diseases, characterized by progressive muscle
weakness: the most common and well known is Duchenne muscular dystrophy which affects …

MRI in neuromuscular diseases: an emerging diagnostic tool and biomarker for prognosis and efficacy

JR Dahlqvist, P Widholm, OD Leinhard… - Annals of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is an unmet need to identify biomarkers sensitive to change in rare, slowly
progressive neuromuscular diseases. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of …

Exploration of new contrasts, targets, and MR imaging and spectroscopy techniques for neuromuscular disease–a workshop report of working group 3 of the …

GJ Strijkers, ECA Araujo, N Azzabou… - Journal of …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Neuromuscular diseases are characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and
muscle weakness resulting in functional disabilities. While each of these diseases is …

Quantitative muscle MRI to follow up late onset Pompe patients: a prospective study

S Figueroa-Bonaparte, J Llauger, S Segovia… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Late onset Pompe disease (LOPD) is a slow, progressive disorder characterized by skeletal
and respiratory muscle weakness. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) slows down the …

Givinostat for Becker muscular dystrophy: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study

GP Comi, EH Niks, K Vandenborne… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective No treatments are approved for Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). This study
investigated the efficacy and safety of givinostat, a histone deacetylase pan-inhibitor, in …

Magnetic resonance imaging of obesity and metabolic disorders: Summary from the 2019 ISMRM Workshop

HH Hu, RT Branca, D Hernando… - Magnetic resonance …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
More than 100 attendees from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Republic of Korea …

Natural history of limb girdle muscular dystrophy R9 over 6 years: searching for trial endpoints

AP Murphy, J Morrow, JR Dahlqvist… - Annals of Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type R9 (LGMD R9) is an autosomal recessive
muscle disease for which there is currently no causative treatment. The development of …

Frequency of reported pain in adult males with muscular dystrophy

MF Jacques, RC Stockley, EI Bostock, J Smith… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The purpose of this study was to present and compare pain between adult
males with Duchenne (DMD), Becker's (BMD), Limb-Girdle (LGMD) Facioscapulohumeral …

Multi‐parametric MR in Becker muscular dystrophy patients

MT Hooijmans, M Froeling, Z Koeks… - NMR in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative MRI and MRS of muscle are increasingly being used to measure individual
pathophysiological processes in Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). In particular, muscle fat …

The increasing role of muscle MRI to monitor changes over time in untreated and treated muscle diseases

C Nuñez-Peralta, J Alonso-Pérez… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The latest results obtained from the study of long cohorts of patients with various
neuromuscular diseases open the door to the use of this technology in clinical trials, which …