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NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 214-220Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.01.001
Keywords
Elastography; Ultrafast ultrasound; Evoked muscle force; Electromechanical delay; Myopathy
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- French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM) [18846]
- Region Pays de la Loire (QUETE project) [2015-09035]
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The present study aimed to assess the ability of muscle stiffness (shear modulus) and response to electrically-induced muscle contraction to detect changes in muscle properties over a 12-month period in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Ten children with DMD and nine age-matched healthy male controls participated in two experimental sessions (T-0 and T+12month) separated by 12.4 +/- 0.9 months. Two contractions of the biceps brachii were electrically-induced during which an ultrasound probe was placed over the muscle. The resting shear modulus was measured using elastography from six muscles. Evoked maximal torque was increased at Lumonths in controls (+11.2 +/- 7.6%, P< 0.001) but was not modified in children with DMD (P = 0.222). Electromechanical delay (+12.9 11.3%, P< 0.001) and its force transmission component (+10.1 +/- 21.6%, P = 0.003) were significantly longer at T+12months than To for children with DMD. The results revealed an increase in muscle stiffness at T+12months in children with DMD for tibialis anterior (+75.1 +/- 93.5%, P = 0.043), gastrocnemius medialis (+144.8 +/- 180.6%, P = 0.050) and triceps brachii (+35.5 +/- 32.2%, P = 0.005). This 12-month follow-up study demonstrates that electromechanical delay and elastography may help detect subtle muscle impairments in patients with DMD. These sensitive outcomes may improve the follow-up of innovative therapeutic interventions within the field of DMD. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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