627 results match your criteria: "Single-Fiber EMG"
Ann Clin Transl Neurol
December 2024
NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Objective: Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) is a hereditary neuropathy characterized by muscle weakness and fatigue with no approved therapies. Preclinical studies implicate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) transmission deficits in muscle dysfunction in CMT. This study aimed to evaluate NMJ function in patients with CMT types 1 and 2, and to determine whether enhancing NMJ transmission can improve muscle function in preclinical CMT models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeliyon
October 2024
Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey.
Biomed Eng Lett
November 2024
Department of Electric, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey.
Neuromuscular junction disorders lead to secession of bioelectrical activity transmission between motor nerve endings and muscle fibers. In diseases that are severe enough, impulse blockings are observed. This study aims to reveal the behavior of neuromuscular junction before and after impulse blockings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Neurophysiol Pract
July 2024
Ellen & Martin Prosserman Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Objective: This study assesses the utility of jitter analysis with concentric needles to evaluate disease severity in myasthenia gravis (MG), correlate changes in jitter with clinical status as well as identify reasons for any discordance.
Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of 82 MG patients and extracted data on demographics, MG subtype, antibody status, clinical scales, electrophysiology, and interventions at baseline and follow-up.
Results: Baseline MGII scores correlated with jitter (r = 0.
World Neurosurg
November 2024
Department of Orthopedics, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China; The Key Laboratory of Digital Orthopedics of Yunnan Province, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China. Electronic address:
This review aims to comprehensively summarize the application of electrophysiological methods, specifically repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) and single fiber electromyography (SFEMG), in the diagnosis of neuromuscular junction (NMJ) disorders, including myasthenia gravis, Lambert-Eaton syndrome, and sarcopenia in the elderly. Both RNS and SFEMG have demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity in detecting NMJ abnormalities. RNS aids in distinguishing presynaptic from postsynaptic lesions, while SFEMG provides direct evidence of NMJ function by assessing single motor unit action potentials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMuscle Nerve
October 2024
Translational Neurophysiology Research Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
Introduction/aims: There is a lack of studies comparing the accuracy of neuromuscular jitter analysis during voluntary activation (v-jitter study) versus axonal stimulation (s-jitter study). The study aimed to compare these two techniques in the same population of patients with suspected ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG).
Methods: Fourteen control subjects (mean age: 55.
Open Med (Wars)
June 2024
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
Objective: Our aim was to examine the significance of single-fiber electromyography (SFEMG) in patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and determine the best correlating parameter with SFEMG parameters and clinical scales across different muscles including facial muscles.
Methods: SFEMG examinations were conducted on the extensor digitorum (ED), frontalis, and orbicularis oculi muscles. Mean jitter, percentage of increased jitter, fiber density (FD), and impulse blocking percentage were compared to reference values and functional scales.
Toxins (Basel)
May 2024
Spinal Unit, Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, APHP Paris Saclay, 92380 Garches, France.
As multiple indications for botulinum toxin injections (BTIs) can coexist for neurological patients, there are to date no description of concomitant injections (CIs) to treat both spasticity and neurogenic detrusor overactivity incontinence (NDOI) in patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and multiple sclerosis (MS). We therefore identified patients followed at our institution by health data hub digging, using a specific procedure coding system in use in France, who have been treated at least once with detrusor and skeletal muscle BTIs within the same 1-month period, over the past 5 years (2017-2021). We analyzed 72 patients representing 319 CIs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectrophysiologic testing plays an important role in evaluating peripheral nerve, muscle, and neuromuscular junction diseases, aiding in diagnosis and treatment strategies by offering real-time assessment. Demyelination of peripheral nerves results in increased conduction delay, temporal dispersion, conduction block, and stimulation threshold. The localization or diffusion of these changes is crucial in understanding disease pathogenesis, necessitating stimulation at multiple points along nerve pathways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Ophthalmol
April 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Purpose: To report the prevalences of other non-thyroid autoimmune diseases and identify factors associated with their presence in ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG) subjects.
Subjects And Methods: A total of 208 subjects with OMG diagnosis were included. Demographic data, clinical characteristics, the ice-pack test, the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody test, electrophysiology tests (single-fiber electromyography and repetitive nerve stimulation), the presence of thymoma, generalized myasthenia gravis conversion, and the presence of other non-thyroid autoimmune diseases (defined as the presence of at least one other non-thyroid autoimmune disease) were retrospectively reviewed.
Neurology
May 2024
From the Neurology Department (Y.V., M.K.S., C.J.B., D.S., B.S., K.P.W.), Clinical Neuroscience Center, and Ophthalmology Department (M.A.W., F.C.F., T.S.-M., C.J.B., K.P.W.), University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Neurology Department and Institute of Clinical Neurosciences (S.R.), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown; and Central Clinical School (S.R.), Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia.
Background And Objectives: We developed repetitive ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (roVEMP) as an electrophysiologic test that allows us to elicit the characteristic decrement of extraocular muscles in patients with ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG). Case-control studies demonstrated that roVEMP reliably differentiates patients with OMG from healthy controls. We now aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of roVEMP for OMG diagnosis in patients with ptosis and/or diplopia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurol Res
June 2024
Department of Neurology, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Objectives: Difficulty relaxing the genioglossus muscle makes the evaluation of spontaneous activity problematic in patients with motor neuron disease (MND). We performed jitter analysis using conventional disposable concentric needle electrodes (CNEs) of the voluntarily activated genioglossus muscle in patients with and without MND to detect the denervation-reinnervation process.
Methods: CNE jitter analysis was performed at the genioglossus muscle in 21 MND(+) patients and 22 MND(-) subjects.
J Vis Exp
March 2024
NextGen Precision Health, University of Missouri; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Missouri; Department of Neurology, University of Missouri; Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri;
As the final connection between the nervous system and muscle, transmission at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is crucial for normal motor function. Single fiber electromyography (SFEMG) is a clinically relevant and sensitive technique that measures single muscle fiber action potential responses during voluntary contractions or nerve stimulations to assess NMJ transmission. The assessment and quantification of NMJ transmission involves two parameters: jitter and blocking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHandb Clin Neurol
March 2024
Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease characterized by dysfunction of the neuromuscular junction resulting in skeletal muscle weakness. It is equally prevalent in males and females, but debuts at a younger age in females and at an older age in males. Ptosis, diplopia, facial bulbar weakness, and limb weakness are the most common symptoms.
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March 2024
Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Argenx US, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the neuromuscular junction. Treatment typically includes symptomatic oral cholinesterase inhibitors, immunosuppression, and immunomodulation. In addition to corticosteroids, azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil are the most frequently used immunosuppressants in North America.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArq Neuropsiquiatr
December 2023
Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, Departamento de Ciências Neurológicas, Psiquiatria e Psicologia Médica, São José do Rio Preto SP, Brazil.
The nerve terminal and muscle membrane compose the neuromuscular junction. After opening the voltage-gated calcium channels, action potentials from the motor axons provoke a cascade for the acetylcholine release from synaptic vesicles to the synaptic cleft, where it binds to its receptor at the muscle membrane for depolarization. Low amplitude compound muscle action potential typically presents in presynaptic disorders, increasing by more than 100% after a 10-second effort in the Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and less in botulism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNoro Psikiyatr Ars
November 2023
İstanbul University, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, İstanbul, Turkey.
Introduction: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the conduction disturbance at the neuromuscular junction in a cranial muscle by measuring jitter with a concentric needle (CN) electrode in the diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and to investigate the utility of evaluating the peak number as an ongoing reinnervation marker.
Method: Twelve patients diagnosed with ALS were included in this study. Single fiber electromyography (SFEMG) was performed using a CN electrode during the voluntary contraction of the right extensor digitorum communis (EDC) and left frontalis muscles.
Ideggyogy Sz
November 2023
Neuromuscular Unit, Neurology Department, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
bioRxiv
October 2023
Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is the linchpin of nerve-evoked muscle contraction. Broadly considered, the function of the NMJ is to transduce a nerve action potential into a muscle fiber action potential (MFAP). Efficient information transfer requires both cholinergic signaling, responsible for the generation of endplate potentials (EPPs), and excitation, the activation of postsynaptic voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicine (Baltimore)
October 2023
Cardiovascular Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.
Backgrounds: Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a chronic neuromuscular junction disorder, emerged as one of the serious side effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. We aimed to summarize the findings of studies on the clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination-associated MG.
Methods: We performed a systematic search on 3 databases, Medline, Embase, and Scopus, using the query "COVID-19 vaccine" and "Myasthenia Gravis.
Neurol Res
February 2024
Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Neurology Department, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objective: There are reports of peripheral nerve and muscle involvement during or after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), even following a mild infection. Here, we aimed to analyze the objective findings regarding peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction, and muscle function using electrophysiology in patients with a previous COVID-19 infection.
Methods: All consecutive patients with a history of COVID-19 were questioned for post-COVID-19 duration-related neurological complaints via Composite Autonomic Symptom Score-31 (COMPASS-31), modified Toronto Neuropathy score (mTORONTO), and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS).
Handb Clin Neurol
August 2023
Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Electronic address:
Electromyography (EMG) focuses on assessment of the motor unit (MU), and a given muscle has several hundred MUs, each innervating hundreds of muscle fibers. Assessment is limited by the recording radius of electrodes, 1-2 fibers with single-fiber electrodes and 7-15 fibers with concentric or monopolar electrodes. Routine qualitative EMG studies rely on observing MUs in free-run mode and qualitatively estimating common metrics.
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June 2023
Department of Neurology, Aalborg University Hospital, Ladegaardsgade 5, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark.
Background: Sporadic late onset nemaline myopathy is a rare, progressive muscle disease, presenting in adulthood, mainly affecting proximal limb and bulbar muscles. Muscle biopsies show characteristic nemaline rods. The putative mechanism is considered immune-related.
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August 2023
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA; Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA. Electronic address:
Sarcopenia, or age-related decline in muscle form and function, exerts high personal, societal, and economic burdens when untreated. Integrity and function of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), as the nexus between the nervous and muscular systems, is critical for input and dependable neural control of muscle force generation. As such, the NMJ has long been a site of keen interest in the context of skeletal muscle function deficits during aging and in the context of sarcopenia.
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