Illness-associated muscle weakness in dystroglycanopathies

Molecular And Cellular Networks in Critical Illness Associated Muscle Weakness: Skeletal Muscle Proteostasis in the Intensive Care Unit

Banduseela, V. C. 2012. Molecular And Cellular Networks in Critical Illness Associated Muscle Weakness: Skeletal Muscle Proteostasis in the Intensive Care Unit. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 841. 63 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8542-9. Critical illness associated muscle weakness and muscle dysfunction in int...

Respiratory weakness is associated with limb weakness and delayed weaning in critical illness.

OBJECTIVE Although critical illness neuromyopathy might interfere with weaning from mechanical ventilation, its respiratory component has not been investigated. We designed a study to assess the level of respiratory muscle weakness emerging during the intensive care unit stay in mechanically ventilated patients and to examine the correlation between respiratory and limb muscle strength and the ...

Muscle Weakness

Marked ligamentous hyperlaxity and muscle weakness/wasting associated with awkward gait are the main deficits confused with the diagnosis of myopathy. Seven children (6 boys and 1 girl with an average age of 8 years) were referred to our department because of diverse forms of skeletal abnormalities. No definitive diagnosis was made, and all underwent a series of sophisticated investigations in ...

Hypophosphatemia-associated respiratory muscle weakness in a general inpatient population.

Although hypophosphatemia has been implicated as a cause of respiratory failure, its impact on respiratory muscle function in patients hospitalized for other reasons remains to be determined. Maximal inspiratory pressures (MIP) and maximal expiratory pressures (MEP) were measured at the bedside in 23 hospitalized patients with serum phosphate levels less than 2.5 mg/dl, and these measurements w...

Acquired Neuromuscular Weakness in Critical Illness