Quantitative Muscle Ultrasonography Using 2D Textural Analysis: A Novel Approach to Assess Skeletal Muscle Structure and Quality in Chronic Kidney Disease

Use of Muscle Relaxants in Patients Without Kidney Disease

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[Ultrasonography of muscle disease].

Muscle ultrasound is a useful tool of the neuromuscular disease. On muscle ultrasound, we can detect the affected muscle as increase of muscle echo intensity because of the fibrosis and fatty infiltration. Muscle atrophy and thickened muscle fascia are also visualized with muscle ultrasound. Another advantage of muscle ultrasound compared to other imaging technique is to visualize muscle moveme...

Quantitative Muscle Ultrasonography in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of quantitative muscle ultrasonography (US) in healthy subjects and to evaluate the correlation between quantitative muscle US findings and electrodiagnostic study results in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The clinical significance of quantitative muscle US in CTS was also assessed. METHODS Twenty patients with CTS and 20 age-matched healthy vo...

Skeletal muscle capillaries in diabetics. A quantitative analysis.

Skeletal muscle dysfunction: a ubiquitous outcome in chronic disease?

Skeletal muscle wasting is a debilitating consequence of respiratory disease, particularly well characterised in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it remains controversial whether peripheral muscle dysfunction is an intrinsic part of the respiratory disease process, or a generalised response to multiple atrophy stimuli. Such debate has not only informed the...