RNA Molecular Biology, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Centre for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging (CMMI), Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Charleroi-Gosselies, Belgium.
Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 125004, Hisar, Haryana, India. anilnehra15@gmail.com.
Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Gene Center, Department of Biochemistry and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, 81377 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: beckmann@genzentrum.lmu.de.
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: ragreen@jhmi.edu.
Point-of-care ultrasound can be used to assess muscle thickness. However, its reliability has not been fully evaluated....
This study aimed to assess the intrarater and inter-rater reliability of point-of-care ultrasound for the estimation of quadriceps and rectus femoris thickness in patients from a rehabilitation settin...
This is a cross-sectional study....
This study was conducted at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of a tertiary care hospital....
Twenty-nine inpatients consecutively selected after admission....
Four observers, two trained and two untrained, used point-of-care ultrasound to measure quadriceps femoris and rectus femoris thickness. Each observer performed two measurements followed by a second s...
Both intrarater and inter-rater ICC were higher than 0.888 for both quadriceps and rectus femoris measurements. Reliability was highest when ICC were calculated based on the average of two measurement...
These results suggest that point-of-care ultrasound is a reliable option to measure muscle thickness of knee extensors by the same or different observers....
Measuring knee extensors thickness may aid to adequately modulate treatment choices in patients with disability. This study suggests that quadriceps and rectus femoris muscle thickness measured after ...
To create an anatomical chart that indicates the probability of finding a motor point (MP) in different areas of the quadriceps muscle....
On 31 healthy adults, the individual anatomy of the vastus medialis (VM), rectus femoris (RF) and vastus lateralis (VL) was determined using ultrasound. Thereafter, a 3 Hz neuromuscular electrical sti...
The heat-map displayed the two best 3x3cm areas, over VL and VM respectively, each with a probability greater than 50% of finding a MP and a higher probability compared to all other areas (p <.05). RF...
Large inter-individual variations in location, and number of MPs were found, but the heat-map displayed areas with higher probability of finding a MP and can be used to facilitate NMES-application....
Ultrasonographic quantitation of quadriceps muscle mass is increasingly used for assessment of sarcopenia, but its relationship with frailty in haemodialysis recipients is not known. This study explor...
This was an exploratory analysis of a subgroup of adult prevalent (≥3 months) haemodialysis recipients deeply phenotyped for frailty. Ultrasound assessment of BATT was obtained with participants at an...
In total 223 study participants had ultrasound measurements. Frailty ranged from 34% for FP to 58% for FI. BATT was associated with increasing frailty on simple linear regression by all frailty tools,...
Ultrasound measures of quadriceps thickness is variably associated with frailty in prevalent haemodialysis recipients, dependent upon the frailty tool used, but not independent of other variables. Fur...
Clinicaltrials.gov : NCT03071107 registered 06/03/2017....
The quadriceps muscle is one of the human body's largest and most clinically important muscles and is evaluated using mid-thigh computed tomography (CT); however, its relationship with motor function ...
A total of 472 middle-aged and older community dwellers (254 men and 218 women) aged ≥40 years (mean age: 62.3 years) were included in this study. The quantity and quality of the quadriceps muscle wer...
In men, CSA and CSA×CTV were significantly associated with seven of the eight motor functions (p<0.05), excluding only balance ability. BMI-corrected CSA was significantly correlated with all eight mo...
The present results showed that a single CT image of the quadriceps muscle at the mid-thigh is useful for diagnosing sarcopenic changes, such as loss of muscle mass, muscle weakness, and muscle functi...
The number of total knee arthroplasties (TKA) has increased steadily with the aging of the population. This surgical procedure is recognized for its success in pain relief and restoration of knee func...
Muscle biopsies (VM and VL muscles) were collected from patients previously submitted to TKA via the medial parapatellar route and undergoing TKA revision (main group, n = 9) and patients with osteoar...
The normal mosaic pattern of the medial and lateral knee muscles was observed in the main and control groups, with no evidence of peripheral nerve damage. Notably, 88.9 % of the patients exhibited mil...
The medial parapatellar incision for TKA surgical access does not generate definitive morphological changes in the VM and VL muscle fibers but may contribute to VL atrophy....
This study aimed to investigate the association of muscle thickness (MT) and echo intensity (EI) obtained at different regions along the muscle length with muscle volume (MV), intramuscular adipose ti...
A total of 135 community-dwelling adults (64 men and 71 women) participated in the study. Ultrasound scanning of the rectus femoris (RF) and vastus intermedius (VI) was performed at three locations (f...
The correlation between RF-MT and RF-MV weakened as scanning approached the distal thigh, and the difference between the coefficients for the scanning locations was significant for women. However, the...
The results of this study suggest that ultrasound measurements at the distal thigh can predict MV, IntraMAT, and muscle strength of the QF to the same degree as those at the mid-thigh....
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) of the quadriceps (Q) may increase venous blood flow to reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism. This study assessed whether Q-NMES pants could increase p...
Vibration foam rolling (VFR) intervention has recently gained attention in sports and rehabilitation settings since the superimposed vibration with foam rolling can affect several physiological system...
As females have been hypothesized to have more fatigue resistant inspiratory muscles, this study aimed to compare the development of inspiratory and leg muscle fatigue between males and females follow...
Cross-sectional comparison....
17 healthy young males (27 ± 6 years, V̇O...
Time to exhaustion was similar between sexes (p = 0.270, 95% CI -2.4 - 0.7 min). MVC of the quadriceps was lower after cycling for males (83.9 ± 11.5% vs. 94.0 ± 12.0% of baseline for females, p = 0.0...
Females incur similar peripheral fatigue in the quadriceps and inspiratory muscles compared with men following high-intensity cycling, despite smaller reduction in voluntary force. This small differen...
To measure changes in muscle thickness and echogenicity, reflecting muscle bulk and quality, respectively, of quadriceps femoris (QF), in critically ill children....
This study was done on 58 children aged 1-18 y requiring mechanical ventilation, admitted in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care hospital from January 2018 to June 2019. QF thick...
The median muscle thickness of QF was 1.58 cm, and vastus intermedius and rectus femoris echogenicity was 35.5 and 25.88 units, respectively in the present cohort, with median age of 6 y. Only 36 of t...
There was a significant change in rectus femoris echogenicity, but not in QF thickness. Echogenicity rather than muscle thickness may be a more sensitive marker for changes in muscle properties....
