Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research Kagoshima University Kagoshima Japan.
Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research Kagoshima University Kagoshima Japan.
Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research Kagoshima University Kagoshima Japan.
Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research Kagoshima University Kagoshima Japan.
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Departement of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, ZH, Switzerland.
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: solarimg@upmc.edu.
1Center for Transplantation Sciences, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129 USA.
2Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045 USA.
7University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Mail Stop 8621, Research Complex 2, 12700 E 19th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045 USA.
Division of Organ Replacement and Xenotransplantation Surgery, Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Studies have shown that there is co-activation between abdominal and pelvic floor muscles (PFM) in physiological conditions. This study aimed to assess pelvic floor and isokinetic trunk flexors functi...
A cross-sectional study was carried out. Twenty-five incontinent women were enrolled after one-hour pad test results and compared to twenty asymptomatic women. The severity of SUI was determined by th...
Incontinent women had a weaker PFM and isokinetic abdominal muscle strength compared to continent women (P<0,05). SUI severity was negatively correlated with PFM strength (r=-0,620, P=0,001), isokinet...
Non-active incontinent women had weaker pelvic floor muscles and isokinetic trunk flexors strength compared to continent ones. The positive correlation found between these two muscle groups may be exp...
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Skeletal muscle works as a dynamic joint stabilizer, assisting the underlying ligaments in restricting joint angulation by actively resisting external loads. Despite its clinical importance, little is...
Muscle strength is highly heritable and predictive for multiple adverse health outcomes including mortality. Here, we present a rare protein-coding variant association study in 340,319 individuals for...
We investigated if dominance affected upper limbs muscle function, and we calculated the level of agreement in asymmetry direction across various muscle-function metrics of two heterologous muscle gro...
Population-derived cutoffs for low skeletal muscle mass, skeletal muscle strength, and frailty among Indians are lacking. Studies describing sarcopenia and frailty among patients with chronic liver di...
We aimed to derive gender-specific cutoffs for low skeletal muscle mass and skeletal muscle strength from healthy Indians....
Healthy Indian population consisted of two groups. Group 1 (Gp I) included 242 healthy liver donors and group 2 (Gp II) 272 healthy health care workers. Skeletal muscle index (SMI) was calculated from...
The SMI was measured from Gp I subjects (n=242; 120 males [mean age 31.13] and 122 females [mean age 36.60]). The HGS, CSUT, and LFI were measured in Gp I and Gp II subjects (n=514; 272 males [mean ag...
We derived gender-specific cutoffs for SMI, HGS, CSUT, and LFI from healthy adult Indian population, which can be used to detect sarcopenia and frailty among patients with liver diseases, as well as o...
Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is defined as obesity with low skeletal muscle function and mass. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of sarcopenic obesity according to different diagnostic criteria and...
A total of 95 children and adolescents with obesity (diagnosed with the use of International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria) with a mean age of 12.7( ± 3) years participated in the study. Body com...
The presence of SO ranged from 6.32% to 97.89%, depending on the criteria used to define sarcopenia. Children with sarcopenia, defined as a co- occurrence of low skeletal muscle mass % (SMM%) measured...
The presence of sarcopenia in our study varied depending on the diagnostic criteria used. This is one of the first studies evaluating muscle mass, muscle strength, and physical performance in children...
Sarcopenia, characterized by reduced muscle mass, strength, or performance, is a common condition in older adults. The association between the gut microbiome and sarcopenia remains poorly understood. ...
Muscle fat infiltration (MFI) also known as myosteatosis refers to any deposit of lipids found in the skeletal muscle. MFI is preferably assessed by image-based methods like computed tomography (CT), ...
The aim of the study was to determine the respiratory muscle strength of stroke patients and compare them with healthy individuals....
The study was conducted with 171 patients who had a stroke between 2017 and 2021 and 32 healthy controls. Respiratory muscle strength and inspiratory and expiratory mouth pressure (MIP and MEP) were m...
The stroke group exhibited significantly lower values in both MIP for men (p<0.001) and women (p=0.013) and maximal expiratory pressure for men (p<0.001) and women (p=0.042), compared with the healthy...
This study highlights the significant respiratory muscle weakness experienced by stroke patients, with gender-specific differences. It highlights the importance of incorporating respiratory assessment...
To investigate the best predictor of muscle strength assessed with both Modified Sphygmomanometer Test (MST) methods (bag adaptation and non-adapted) and to provide normative values for these two MST ...
Cross-sectional study....
The strength of 42 muscle groups were assessed with the MST in the bag adaptation and non-adapted methods in 120 healthy individuals, 50 % males, divided into three age groups (20-39, 40-59, 60-79) wi...
Sex was the best independent predictor for all muscle groups for both MST methods (8.8 % < R...
Sex was the best predictor of muscle strength, as commonly found for muscle strength assessment with the dynamometer. The normative values provided have high clinical utility and can be used to interp...
