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Fasciculation
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Fasciculation
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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, United Kingdom.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@SPiQEneurology.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ellen and Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Fisiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Fisiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche-CSIC, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche-CSIC, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain.
Publications dans "Fasciculation" :
Loss of muscle thickness can be demonstrated in a wide spectrum of neuromuscular disorders, while fasciculations are more frequent in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In the current study, we aime...
The thickness and the presence of fasciculations in eight muscles were determined by sonography in patients with myopathy (22), polyneuropathy (36), ALS (91), and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) (31) an...
Reduced muscle thickness in at least one relaxed muscle showed 92-100% sensitivity for diagnosing a neuromuscular disease, with a specificity of 85% for differentiating patients from heathy controls (...
Sonographic assessment of muscle thickness is a sensitive tool for diagnosing a wide spectrum of neuromuscular diseases, and may facilitate diagnosis even in patients with normal strength on neurologi...
An 82-year-old man presented with 2-year lasting widespread muscular fasciculations, cramps, and limb stiffness, with spontaneous movements in the right lower limb, unsteady gait (Video 1), and falls....
One of the major consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the significant incidence of persistent fatigue following resolution of an acute infection (i.e. post-COVID fatigue). We have shown prev...
Motor nerve organoids could be generated by culturing a spheroid of motor neurons differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells within a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) chip which guides ...
Cramp-fasciculation syndrome (CFS) is a rare and benign neuromuscular disorder that may initially masquerade as motor neuron disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. While CFS may have a familial dispos...
Dental surgeons often play a pivotal role in the initial detection of lingual fasciculations (LFs). These involuntary micro-movements of the tongue can serve as early clinical indicators of neurodegen...
This study aimed to pinpoint the pathologies in which LFs could emerge as an early clinical marker. Our review focused on articles delineating patient populations exhibiting LF within broader patholog...
We conducted a comprehensive literature review across four databases (PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus). Two authors independently extracted data, with consultation from a third author when ...
Our review identified 22 articles encompassing 153 patients with LF, with an average age of 45.8 years and a female prevalence of 43%. Electromyography and ultrasound emerged as the predominant detect...
While primarily indicative of ALS, LFs may also signal diverse underlying pathologies. Healthcare practitioners should be vigilant in their detection and expedite patient referrals to facilitate early...
Vertebrate nervous systems use the axon initial segment (AIS) to initiate action potentials and maintain neuronal polarity. The microtubule-associated protein tripartite motif containing 46 (TRIM46) w...
Transient expression of somatostatin (SST) has been observed in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and nerves of chick embryos. Intense expression of SST in these regions on embryonic days (E) 5-8 coincide...
Compare fasciculation rates between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and healthy controls in body regions relevant for diagnosing ALS using motor unit MRI (MUMRI) at baseline and 6 months ...
Tongue, biceps brachii, paraspinals and lower legs were assessed with MUMRI and biceps brachii and soleus with SEMG in 10 healthy controls and 10 patients (9 typical ALS, 1 primary lateral sclerosis [...
MUMRI-detected fasciculation rates in typical ALS patients were higher compared to healthy controls for biceps brachii (2.40 ± 1.90 cm...
MUMRI can non-invasively image fasciculation in multiple body regions and appears sensitive to disease progression in individual patients....
MUMRI has potential as diagnostic tool for ALS....
We report an unusual patient who, at age 47 years, had presented with complaints of muscle fasciculations. After neurological examination and electromyogram testing, he was diagnosed with motor neurop...