ArticleJournal of neurology2020
Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging detects subclinical changes over 1 year in skeletal muscle of GNE myopathy.
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- Ultra-Orphan drug development for GNE Myopathy: A synthetic literature review and meta-analysis.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2025Pooled it
- The role of amyloid β in the pathological mechanism of GNE myopathy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Review
- Baseline fat fraction is a strong predictor of disease progression in Becker muscular dystrophy.NMR in biomedicine · 2022Article
- Selection Approach to Identify the Optimal Biomarker Using Quantitative Muscle MRI and Functional Assessments in Becker Muscular Dystrophy.Neurology · 2021Article
- Global versus individual muscle segmentation to assess quantitative MRI-based fat fraction changes in neuromuscular diseases.European radiology · 2021Article
- Skeletal Muscle Magnetic Resonance Biomarkers in GNE Myopathy.Neurology · 2021Observational
- Lean regional muscle volume estimates using explanatory bioelectrical models in healthy subjects and patients with muscle wasting.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
- Muscle MRI in two SMA patients on nusinersen treatment: A two years follow-up.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2020Article
- Relationship between markers of disease activity and progression in skeletal muscle of GNE myopathy patients using quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging andQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
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objectiveTo identify the most responsive and sensitive clinical outcome measures in GNE myopathy.
methodsClinBio-GNE is a natural history study in GNE myopathy. Patients were assessed prospectively by clinical, functional and quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (qNMRI) evaluations. Strength and functional tests included Myogrip, Myopinch, MoviPlate and Brooke assessments for upper limb and the 6-min walk distance for lower limb. qNMRI was performed for determining the degree of fatty infiltration and trophicity in leg, thigh, forearm and hand skeletal muscles. Ten GNE myopathy patients were included. Three patients were non-ambulant. Age and gender-matched healthy subjects were used as controls.
resultsFatty infiltration and contractile cross-sectional area changed inversely and significantly in lower distal limbs and in proximal lower and distal upper limbs over 1 year. qNMRI indices and functional assessment results were strongly correlated.
conclusionsEven in a limited number of patients, qNMRI could detect a significant change over a 1-year period in GNE myopathy, which suggests that qNMRI could constitute a surrogate endpoint in this slowly progressive disease. Quantitative NMRI outcome measures can monitor intramuscular fat accumulation with high responsiveness. Longer follow-up should improve our understanding of GNE myopathy evolution and also lead to the identification of non-invasive outcome measures with the highest discriminant power for upcoming clinical trials.
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