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Data on quality of life in hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
On 27/08/2024
Forty-nine patients with hypokalaemic periodic paralysis linked to CACNA1S completed a quality of life questionnaire (INQoL). The symptoms with the greatest impact on their quality…
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SMA: chronic pain is common, particularly in adolescence
On 27/08/2024
Analysis of data from the Swiss neuromuscular disease register relating to 141 patients with SMN1-related proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) shows that : 28 had…
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3,4-diaminopyridine may improve VAMP1-related congenital myasthenic syndromes
On 26/08/2024
In 2017, mutations in VAMP1 were implicated in a congenital presynaptic myasthenic syndrome. Since then, nine autosomal recessive cases with hypotonia, facial weakness, fatigability, bulbar…
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Properties of the functional scale used in inclusion myositis
On 26/08/2024
An Anglo-Saxon consortium studied the psychometric properties of the IBMFRS (Inclusion Body Myositis Functional Rating Scale), the reference scale used in patients with inclusion myositis…
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GNE myopathy: the absence of sialic acid in adulthood is not pathological in mice
On 26/08/2024
Israeli researchers have developed a mouse model of GNE myopathy, in which they induce GNE deficiency in the muscle and liver in adulthood. These mice…
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European recommendations for late-onset Pompe disease summarised by the three-S rule
On 26/08/2024
The European consortium for Pompe disease has updated its recommendations on enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for this metabolic myopathy. The considerable hindsight now available on…
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Inherited motor neurone diseases are not limited to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
On 16/08/2024
The team at the Centre de référence pour la sclérose latérale amyotrophique et pour les maladies neuromusculaires rares ‘AOC’ (Reference Centre for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis…
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Primary administration of biphosphonates is less deleterious than expected, but remains to be monitored, particularly in DMD
On 14/08/2024
British clinicians have studied the side effects of the first venous administration of biphosphonates to combat osteoporosis: the records of 107 children who had received…
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Establishing functional trajectories is relevant to the design of therapeutic trials in DMD
On 12/08/2024
Faced with the difficulties and sometimes disappointed expectations of certain therapeutic trials in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an international consortium of researchers sought to refine…
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Glucocorticoid receptors are locally useful in DMD
On 09/08/2024
American researchers sought to better understand the function and effects of long-term corticosteroid therapy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): the gene encoding the glucocorticoid receptor…
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n myasthenia gravis, thymectomy for thymoma gives good neurological results after the age of 65
On 07/08/2024
A retrospective study carried out in two Italian expert centres in 66 patients aged over 65 with autoimmune myasthenia with thymoma, without anti-MuSK, showed :…
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PNDS recommendations on FHSD published internationally
On 07/08/2024
The National Diagnostic and Care Protocol (PNDS) for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) was published in France at the very end of 2021. A recent article…
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A new combination of biomarkers to detect DMD female carriers
On 06/08/2024
Chinese researchers have studied ways of improving screening for women with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): apart from DMD gene genotyping, creatine phosphokinase (CPK) blood testing…
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Targeted expression of HMOX1 in satellite cells plays a protective role and reduces dystrophic lesions in mdx mice
On 02/08/2024
Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) is an enzyme with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant potential, encoded by the HMOX1 gene. Its level is high in the muscles of…
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CPK levels in children and adolescents vary according to age, sex, weight and whether they are taking contraception
On 01/08/2024
Between 2011 and 2016, 5,238 blood samples from 2,707 healthy children and adolescents, aged 0.14 months to 18 years, were collected as part of the…
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A French study on quality of life in non-dystrophic myotonia
On 31/07/2024
The responses of 47 patients with non-dystrophic myotonia to a French questionnaire on the impact of myotonia (French IMPACT survey 2022) showed that : the…
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Hair dye implicated in myasthenic attacks
On 31/07/2024
A 43-year-old woman was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis after a myasthenic crisis requiring intubation, intravenous immunoglobulins and corticosteroids. Taking pyridostigmine 60mg twice a day, she…
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Severe gastrointestinal disorders are relatively common in adults with DMD
On 31/07/2024
In a cohort of 80 adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) followed annually by the Radboud Centre in the Netherlands : six patients presented acute…
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Italian study confirms phenotypic heterogeneity of hereditary P0 neuropathy
On 30/07/2024
Italian clinicians participating in the national registry of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease have compiled the clinical and biological data of patients in whom a pathological variant…
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First-line rituximab as effective alone as in combination with corticosteroids in myasthenia gravis
On 29/07/2024
The Nice University Hospital conducted a single–centre retrospective study based on data from 68 patients treated in thefirst line with rituximab for a generalised form…