An acute necrotising myopathy is a distinct form of uncommon muscle disease characterised by the rapid advancement of ...

Various measures of abnormal left atrial (LA) structure or function (LA myopathy) are associated with a higher risk of ischemic stroke and dementia, independent of atrial fibrillation. However, ...

An EMG disclosed positive sharp waves restricted to lower cervical ... target and targetoid fibres as well as myopathic features such as the presence of hypertrophic and split muscle fibres; a few ...

Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of inflammatory myopathy. Most patients with IMNM produce anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase or anti-signal-recognition particle ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic autoimmune inflammatory disorders characterised by symmetrical skeletal muscle weakness and accelerated fatigue also in the early ...

OPDM4 is an exceptionally rare disorder (Yu et al., 2022; Zeng et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2023; Eura et al., 2024). It is urgently needed to further accumulate cases to deepen our understanding of the ...

A number of proteins regulating this process are mutated in human diseases. We focus on centronuclear myopathy due to mutations in the large GTPase dynamin 2 (DNM2), the first protein shown to ...

Serum creatine kinase levels were moderately elevated, and electromyogram (EMG) showed a myopathic pattern of abnormalities. Muscle biopsies were performed in all affected patients. By light ...