ArticleInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2022
SWE
Article in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Prognostic value of skeletal muscle viscoelasticity in older patients with heart failure: the VISMARC-HF study design.BMC geriatrics · 2026Observational
- Subclinical muscle softening in type 2 diabetes: a shear wave elastography study linking mechanical properties to metabolic profiles.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
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- Association between real-time shear wave elastography findings and HER-2 expression in breast cancer.Translational cancer research · 2025Article
- Shear wave elastography, as a feasible tool, can be used to reflect the lower limb dysfunction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Application of real-time shear wave elastography to Achilles tendon hardness evaluation in older adults.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- Objective Methods of Muscle Tone Diagnosis and Their Application-A Critical Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Comparison of the asymmetries in muscle mass, biomechanical property and muscle activation asymmetry of quadriceps femoris between patients with unilateral and bilateral knee osteoarthritis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Purpose: To develop a potential quadriceps' index of complication evaluation for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which is simple, convenient, and quantifiable. Patients and Methods: We conducted a prospective study of 59 patients with COPD and 56 healthy controls recruited by the Chengdu First People's Hospital. Grayscale ultrasound (US) of the rectus femoris was performed to measure thickness (RF Results: The intra-observer repeatability for the performance of using SWE to measure quadriceps stiffness was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)>0.75, p < 0.001). There was a statistically significant difference in the SWE Conclusion: As a supplement to US, SWE reflects changes of stiffness in the quadriceps of COPD patients, and can expanding the dimension of US for assessing the quadriceps. Furthermore, SWE
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