Neuromuscular Disease
Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease
... In neuromuscular disease (NMD) patients with progressive muscle weakness, respiratory muscles are also affected and hypercapnia can increase gradually as the disease ...
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Initiating Noninvasive Management of Respiratory Insufficiency in Neuromuscular Disease
... with neuromuscular disease are at risk for a wide variety of sleep-disordered breathing types including central and obstructive sleep apnea leading to hypercarbia and ...
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Stability and relative validity of the Neuromuscular Disease Impact Profile (NMDIP)
... The NMDIP consists of 36 items that cover all ICF- components and are divided into eight scales and four single items. The NMDIP-scales showed moderate to good Cronbach’s alpha and mean inter-item correlation ...
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Novel Methods of Ambulatory Physiologic Monitoring in Patients With Neuromuscular Disease
... tory inductive plethysmography are shown in Table 2 (www.pediatrics.org/content/vol123/Supplement_4). In our initial survey, the use of the mechanical insufflator/ exsufflator (MI-E), high-frequency chest wall ...
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Methodology and Design of a National Epidemiological Study on Adult Neuromuscular Disease
... adult neuromuscular disease (NMD) in the Republic of Ireland ...including neuromuscular clin- ics, hospital neurology databases, the hospital in-patient en- quiry (HIPE) system of each hospital and ...
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Acute Effects of Air Stacking Versus Glossopharyngeal Breathing in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease
... that neuromuscular disease patients are commonly treated at home setting by physical therapist where the availability of costly devices are scarce in most Latin American ...
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Noninvasive Respiratory Management for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury and Neuromuscular Disease
... 11. Gonçalves MR, Bach JR, Ishikawa Y, DeVito EL, Prado F, Salinas P, Dominguez ME, et al. Evolution of noninvasive management of end-stage respiratory muscle failure in neuromuscular diseases. Report to the: 69th ...
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Respiratory management of patients with neuromuscular disease: current perspectives
... in neuromuscular disease can occur as an acute phenomenon or a chronic progressive ...progressive neuromuscular disorders causing respiratory ...chronic neuromuscular respiratory failure, ...
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Nocturnal Hypoventilation in Children With Nonprogressive Neuromuscular Disease
... Eight patients between 4 and 24 years of age with nonprogressive neuromuscular disease sought medical attention because of severe nocturnal hypoven- tilation.. There were two types of fi[r] ...
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Transition to adult care in young people with neuromuscular disease on non-invasive ventilation
... NMDs: Neuromuscular diseases; PEG: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy; PSG: Polysomnography; RBHT: Paediatric Respiratory Unit of the Royal Brompton Hospital (London, UK); SDB: Sleep Disordered Breathing; SMA: ...
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Same-day physical therapy consults in an outpatient neuromuscular disease physician clinic
... Patient demographic data are provided in Table 2. Mean ( ± standard deviation) age was 54.22 ( ± 19.81) years, the median age was 60 years, with 76 male (56.7%) and 58 female (43.3%) patients. The geographic distance ...
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Next generation sequencing in a large cohort of patients presenting with neuromuscular disease before or at birth
... distress necessitating mechanical ventilation, subcutane- ous oedema, contractures of the hips and knees and camptodactyly of the fingers. She died at 4 weeks of age. Maternal testing for myotonic dystrophy (DM1) was ...
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Exploiting the heightened phase synchrony in patients with neuromuscular disease for the establishment of efficient motor imagery BCIs
... 6 The classification performance in the state discrimination task ( “ left ” vs “ right ” hand movement imagery) when elements from the static connectivity patterns are utilized... lower[r] ...
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Are mice good models for human neuromuscular disease? Comparing muscle excursions in walking between mice and humans
... NMD Neuromuscular Network [21] and many pre- clinical studies [22–25] that aimed to test the efficacy of new treatments in mouse models exercise mdx mice at 12 m/min ...
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Morphological assessment of enteric neuromuscular disease causing intestinal pseudo-obstruction
... Hirschsprung’s disease, the neuron density was found to be just at two standard deviations below the mean, so that the subjective impression of a relative paucity of neurons was supported, but could not be ...
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The essentiality of histo‐ and cytochemical studies of skeletal muscle in the investigation of neuromuscular disease
... Two fundamental types of abnormalities in skeletal muscle are detectable with histo- and cytochemical technics: (a) a generalized change of a given reaction, for ex[r] ...
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THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SERUM CREATINE KINASE IN NEUROMUSCULAR AND MUSCULAR DISEASE
... At present only few data on CK values in neuromuscular disease are found in lit- erature (Table II). There is general agree- ment about CK activity in patients with neurogenie muscular a[r] ...
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Neuromuscular Blocking Agents (NMBAs): An Overview
... Medical errors involving NMBAs continue to result in patient morbidity and mortality. Increased awareness and action on the part of all parties involved—manufacturers and suppliers, purchasers, and all practitioners ...
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Congenital myopathies in the adult neuromuscular clinic
... Thirty-three patients underwent muscle biopsy. Among 26 of these patients in whom a molecular diagnosis was established, only 11 had the distinctive histopathologic findings of a CM, including central core disease ...
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Neuromuscular electrical stimulation versus traditional therapy in patients with Parkinson's disease and oropharyngeal dysphagia: effects on quality of life
... Parkinson’s disease (H&Y [ 3) were ...Parkinson’s disease in our patient population (H&Y scale median = 2) might have contrib- uted to less significant group ...
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