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Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients

There is no specific designed diagnostic test for post-poliomyelitis syndrome. The most important symptoms of this syndrome are new loss of muscle strength and more fatigue. Previous studies have investigated muscle ultrasound parameters to distinguish neuromuscular disease patients from healthy con...

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Autores principales: Mateos-Angulo, Álvaro, Salazar-Agulló, José Andrés, Roldán-Jiménez, Cristina, Trinidad-Fernández, Manuel, Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36359586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112743
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author Mateos-Angulo, Álvaro
Salazar-Agulló, José Andrés
Roldán-Jiménez, Cristina
Trinidad-Fernández, Manuel
Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
author_facet Mateos-Angulo, Álvaro
Salazar-Agulló, José Andrés
Roldán-Jiménez, Cristina
Trinidad-Fernández, Manuel
Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
author_sort Mateos-Angulo, Álvaro
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description There is no specific designed diagnostic test for post-poliomyelitis syndrome. The most important symptoms of this syndrome are new loss of muscle strength and more fatigue. Previous studies have investigated muscle ultrasound parameters to distinguish neuromuscular disease patients from healthy controls. The aim of this study was to investigate if muscle thickness and echo intensity measured by ultrasound can discriminate post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients from healthy controls. A total of 29 post-polio patients and 27 healthy controls participated in this cross-sectional study. Anthropometric measures, muscle thickness, echo intensity using B-mode ultrasound in rectus femoris and biceps brachii muscles, and muscle strength test data were collected. Muscle thickness in rectus femoris was significantly lower in post-poliomyelitis patients than in healthy controls, but not in biceps brachii. Echo intensity in rectus femoris and biceps brachii was higher in post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients than in healthy controls. Correlations were found between muscle thickness and strength in the upper and lower limbs. The results of the present study showed that muscle thickness in rectus femoris and echo intensity in rectus femoris and biceps brachii can discriminate post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients from healthy controls. A better assessment is possible because it can observe differences and relevant parameters in this clinical population.
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spelling pubmed-96897092022-11-25 Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients Mateos-Angulo, Álvaro Salazar-Agulló, José Andrés Roldán-Jiménez, Cristina Trinidad-Fernández, Manuel Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio Diagnostics (Basel) Article There is no specific designed diagnostic test for post-poliomyelitis syndrome. The most important symptoms of this syndrome are new loss of muscle strength and more fatigue. Previous studies have investigated muscle ultrasound parameters to distinguish neuromuscular disease patients from healthy controls. The aim of this study was to investigate if muscle thickness and echo intensity measured by ultrasound can discriminate post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients from healthy controls. A total of 29 post-polio patients and 27 healthy controls participated in this cross-sectional study. Anthropometric measures, muscle thickness, echo intensity using B-mode ultrasound in rectus femoris and biceps brachii muscles, and muscle strength test data were collected. Muscle thickness in rectus femoris was significantly lower in post-poliomyelitis patients than in healthy controls, but not in biceps brachii. Echo intensity in rectus femoris and biceps brachii was higher in post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients than in healthy controls. Correlations were found between muscle thickness and strength in the upper and lower limbs. The results of the present study showed that muscle thickness in rectus femoris and echo intensity in rectus femoris and biceps brachii can discriminate post-poliomyelitis syndrome patients from healthy controls. A better assessment is possible because it can observe differences and relevant parameters in this clinical population. MDPI 2022-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9689709/ /pubmed/36359586 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112743 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Salazar-Agulló, José Andrés
Roldán-Jiménez, Cristina
Trinidad-Fernández, Manuel
Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title_full Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title_fullStr Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title_full_unstemmed Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title_short Ultrasonography Assessment Based on Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Post-Polio Patients
title_sort ultrasonography assessment based on muscle thickness and echo intensity in post-polio patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36359586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112743
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