SAN DIEGO — The use of electromyograms and nerve conduction studies are essential to excluding alternative diagnoses and confirming muscle disease when evaluating patients with suspected myopathic ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential ...

Myopathies are a group of disorders that are characterized by a primary structural or functional impairment of the skeletal muscle. These diseases usually affect muscles without involving the nervous ...

East Hanover, NJ. December 22, 2022. A team of researchers has developed a promising new approach to detecting neuromuscular disorders using intramuscular electromyography (iEMG). In a pilot study, ...

Myopathy describes disorders of the muscles that cause them to function less effectively. Myopathies can be inherited or acquired, and the symptoms may be present from birth or develop later on.

History gathering should solicit the patient’s abilities or limitations with these activities of daily living (ADLs). The patient may have mild arthralgias. Lungs are the most common extra muscular ...

Researchers have identified a subgroup of patients with necrotizing myopathy who have a novel autoantibody specificity that makes them potential candidates for immunosuppressive therapy. Researchers ...