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Real-world data of in-hospital administration of alglucosidase alfa in French patients with Pompe disease: results from the National Claims Database
Pompe disease is caused by a rare biallelic mutation in the GAA gene resulting in acid α-glucosidase deficiency and glycogen accumulation.
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French National Protocol for diagnosis and care of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is one of the most common genetically inherited myopathies in adults. It is characterized by incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity. Typically, FSHD patie...
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Phenotype variability and natural history of X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy
X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (XMEA) linked to the VMA21 gene leads to autophagy failure with progressive vacuolation and atrophy of skeletal muscles. Current knowledge of this rare disease is limite...
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Open AccessMultidisciplinary team meetings in treatment of spinal muscular atrophy adult patients: a real-life observatory for innovative treatments
In 2017, a new treatment by nusinersen, an antisense oligonucleotide delivered by repeated intrathecal injections, became available for patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), whereas clinical trials had ...
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Face to Face: deciphering facial involvement in inclusion body myositis
The objective of this study is to evaluate the frequency and characteristics of facial involvement in inclusion body myositis (IBM) patients and to compare it to the one previously described in facioscapulohum...
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Open AccessA multicenter cross-sectional French study of the impact of COVID-19 on neuromuscular diseases
Due to their health condition, patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are at greater risk of develo** serious complications with COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence of COV...
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Antibodies against the node of Ranvier: a real-life evaluation of incidence, clinical features and response to treatment based on a prospective analysis of 1500 sera
IgG4 antibodies against neurofascin (Nfasc155 and Nfasc140/186), contactin (CNTN1) and contactin-associated protein (Caspr1) are described in specific subtypes of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradicul...
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Nailfold videocapillaroscopy alterations in dermatomyositis, antisynthetase syndrome, overlap myositis, and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy
The aim of our study was to investigate possible differences in nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) features between patients with dermatomyositis (DM), overlap myositis (OM), antisynthetase syndrome (ASS), and...
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Late-onset Pompe disease in France: molecular features and epidemiology from a nationwide study
Pompe disease (PD) is caused by a deficiency of lysosomal acid α-glucosidase resulting from mutations in the GAA gene. The clinical spectrum ranges from a rapidly fatal multisystemic disorder (classic PD, onset <...
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Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Novel TTN Mutations Causing Recessive Distal Titinopathy
Tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD) is the first described human titinopathy. It is a mild adult-onset slowly progressive myopathy causing weakness and atrophy in the anterior lower leg muscles. TMD is caused by m...
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Combined quantification of fatty infiltration, T 1-relaxation times and T 2*-relaxation times in normal-appearing skeletal muscle of controls and dystrophic patients
To evaluate the combination of a fat–water separation method with an automated segmentation algorithm to quantify the intermuscular fatty-infiltrated fraction, the relaxation times, and the microscopic fatty i...
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Open AccessSegregation between SMCHD1 mutation, D4Z4 hypomethylation and Facio-Scapulo-Humeral Dystrophy: a case report
The main form of Facio-Scapulo-Humeral muscular Dystrophy is linked to copy number reduction of the 4q D4Z4 macrosatellite (FSHD1). In 5 % of cases, FSHD phenotype appears in the absence of D4Z4 reduction (FSH...
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Volume measurements of individual muscles in human quadriceps femoris using atlas-based segmentation approaches
Atlas-based segmentation is a powerful method for automatic structural segmentation of several sub-structures in many organs. However, such an approach has been very scarcely used in the context of muscle segm...
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Open AccessExpanding the clinical spectrum of hereditary fibrosing poikiloderma with tendon contractures, myopathy and pulmonary fibrosis due to FAM111B mutations
Hereditary Fibrosing Poikiloderma (HFP) with tendon contractures, myopathy and pulmonary fibrosis (POIKTMP [MIM 615704]) is a very recently described entity of syndromic inherited poikiloderma. Previously by u...
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Open AccessLow penetrance in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1 with large pathological D4Z4 alleles: a cross-sectional multicenter study
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1(FSHD1) is an autosomal dominant disorder associated with the contraction of D4Z4 less than 11 repeat units (RUs) on chromosome 4q35. Penetrance in the range of the...