Whole-muscle fat analysis identifies distal muscle end as disease initiation site in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Autor: Linda Heskamp, Augustin Ogier, David Bendahan, Arend Heerschap
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Communications Medicine, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2730-664X
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-022-00217-1
Popis: Heskamp et al. perform quantitative MRI analysis of end-to-end muscle fat fractions in a series of patients with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy. The authors report that disease initiation commonly occurs at the distal end of affected muscles, with wave-like progression to the proximal end.
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