Case Report: Lower Limb Muscle Weakness in a Child With Kawasaki Disease
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis that may impact multiple organ systems in children. Myositis is an unusual presentation of KD that presents with muscle weakness.
Lilin Huang +3 more
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MicroRNA regulatory networks associated with abnormal muscle repair in survivors of critical illness
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022 Background Intensive care unit (ICU)‐acquired weakness is characterized by muscle atrophy and impaired contractility that may persist after ICU discharge.
Christopher J. Walsh +12 more
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Acute Nontraumatic Muscle Weakness
Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, 2019 Acute nontraumatic weakness (ANTW) is defined as acute onset of weakness in any part of the body. The weakness occurs due to interruption at any point along the motor pathway.
Kiran Jangra +2 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Handgrip strength (HGS) is a simple, quick, inexpensive, and highly reliable method for the assessment of muscle strength in clinical practice and epidemiological studies.
Bruno de Souza Moreira +6 more
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A Rare Complication of External Dacryocystorhinostomy: Transient Orbicularis Muscle Weakness [PDF]
, 2014 In this study, we present 4 patients with transient orbicularis oculi muscle weakness following external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR). Preoperative and postoperative records of 4 patients who presented with either a delay in blinking or lagophthalmos on ...
Şafak Karslıoğlu +3 more
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A chronic low dosage of taurine induces muscle weakness in castrated-aged mice
Translational Medicine of Aging, 2021 Taurine is an abundant metabolite associated with regulation of cell volume. Several signaling pathways are stimulated at a micromolar concentrations of taurine. However, most of the experimental studies employ this compound at a very high concentration (
Noelia G. Barragán-Ceballos +8 more
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Risk Factors for Inspiratory Muscle Weakness in Chronic Heart Failure [PDF]
, 2020 Chronic heart failure is commonly associated with inspiratory muscle weakness. However, few studies have investigated the risk factors for inspiratory muscle weakness in individuals with chronic heart failure and systolic dysfunction (left-ventricular ...
Murakami, Fernanda Murata +11 more
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Does acute passive stretching increase muscle length in children with cerebral palsy? [PDF]
, 2013 This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use ...
Theis, Nicola +12 more
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The role of the neuromuscular control mechanism in motor output : do individuals share muscle activation features? [PDF]
, 2011 Although walking is a constrained movement, there is variation in the muscle recruitment patterns. The processed wavelet-based electromyogram (EMG) [von Tscharner (2000)] signals indicated that the task structure contained in walking doesn’t prescribe ...
Huber, Cora
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Expanding the phenotype of late-onset Pompe disease: tongue weakness: a new clinical observation. [PDF]
, 2023 IntroductionFollowing the clinical observation of lingual weakness in 2 patients with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD), tongue strength was assessed in 19 consecutive patients to determine the frequency and severity of this neurological sign ...
Corderi, Jose +4 more
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