ArticleJournal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea)2022
Changes in Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Chronic Stroke Survivors: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study.
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- Age-related changes in ultrasound-assessed muscle composition and postural stability.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Changes in Lower Extremity Muscle Quantity and Quality in Patients with Subacute Stroke.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2023Article
- Sitting vs. supine ultrasound measurements of the vastus medialis: correlations with MRI measurements and age considerations.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Article
- Surface Electromyography-Driven Parameters for Representing Muscle Mass and Strength.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ischemic Stroke Induces Skeletal Muscle Damage and Alters Transcriptome Profile in Rats.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Respiratory muscle ultrasonography evaluation and its clinical application in stroke patients: A review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Usefulness of muscle ultrasound in appendicular skeletal muscle mass estimation for sarcopenia assessment.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Muscle Thickness Assessment Using Ultrasonography is a Useful Alternative to Skeletal Muscle Mass by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Article
- Nutritional status, abdominal muscle thickness, and functional outcomes in patients with subacute to chronic stroke.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
background and purposeThe objective of this study was to identify 2-year longitudinal changes in the muscle thickness (MT) and echo intensity (EI) of the abdominal, thigh, and lower limb muscles in chronic stroke survivors.
methodsThis study included 15 chronic stroke survivors aged 74.1±9.9 years. The MT, EI, and subcutaneous fat thickness values of the following muscles on the paretic and nonparetic sides were assessed on transverse ultrasound images: rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, rectus femoris (RF), vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis (VL), vastus medialis, tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius, and soleus. The ultrasound measurements were performed both at baseline and 2 years later.
resultsAfter 2 years, the VL on the paretic side showed a significant decrease in MT (
conclusionsThe findings of this longitudinal study suggest that the VL on the paretic side is subject to deteriorations in muscle quantity and quality, and conversely that the RF on the nonparetic side shows an improvement in muscle quality after 2 years in chronic stroke survivors.
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