ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Muscle Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography as a Non-Invasive Biomarker in Myotonia.
Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06701318 (Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Assessing Muscle Stiffness in Parkinson's Disease Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Assessing Muscle Stiffness in Parkinson's Disease Patients
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Myotonia: Recognition, Evaluation, and Differential Diagnosis.Muscle & nerve · 2026Review
- Active-NDM: Development of a patient-reported outcome questionnaire to measure the impact of non-dystrophic myotonia on activity of daily living.Journal of neuromuscular diseases · 2026Article
- Explorative study using ultrasound time-harmonic elastography for stiffness-based quantification of skeletal muscle function.Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik · 2025Article
- Investigation of Varying Durations of Dynamic Stretches on Muscle Stiffness of the Ankle Plantar Flexors Using Shear Wave Ultrasound Elastography.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2025Article
- The application of transperineal ultrasonography combined with shear wave elastography in the evaluation and monitoring of pelvic floor function in the early stage after total hysterectomy.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Article
- Fabrication of Apparatus Specialized for Measuring the Elasticity of Perioral Tissues.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Experimental Ultrasound Approach for Studying Knee Intra-Articular Femur-Tibia Movements under Different Loads.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Detecting age-related changes in skeletal muscle mechanics using ultrasound shear wave elastography.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Characterization of Muscle Weakness Due to Myasthenia Gravis Using Shear Wave Elastography.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ultrasound of the Biceps Muscle in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease with Deep Brain Stimulation: Rigidity Can Be Quantified by Shear Wave Elastography.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- In Vivo Assessment of Shear Wave Propagation in Pennate Muscles Using an Automatic Ultrasound Probe Alignment System.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Limitations of Muscle Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Clinical Routine-Positioning and Muscle Selection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Myotonia, i.e., delayed muscle relaxation in certain hereditary muscle disorders, can be assessed quantitatively using different techniques ranging from force measurements to electrodiagnostics. Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) has been proposed as a novel tool in biomechanics and neuromuscular medicine for the non-invasive estimation of muscle elasticity and, indirectly, muscle force. The aim of this study is to provide 'proof-of-principle' that SWE allows a quantitative measurement of the duration of delayed muscle relaxation in myotonia in a simple clinical setting. In six myotonic muscle disorder patients and six healthy volunteers, shear wave velocities (SWV) parallel to the fiber orientation in the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle in the forearm were recorded with a temporal resolution of one per second during fist-clenching and subsequent relaxation; the relaxation time to 10% of normalized shear wave velocity (RT
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