On September 2019, 19 participants from 9 countries attended the 247th European
Neuromuscular Center (ENMC) workshop in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, to discuss the …

Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging has emerged as a useful imaging tool in
diagnosing and characterizing the progression of myopathies and muscular dystrophies …

A growing body of the literature supports the use of magnetic resonance imaging as a
potential biomarker for disease severity in the hereditary myopathies. We performed a …

In recent years magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) have increased
in prominence in the neuromuscular field owing both to their utility in the diagnostic workup …

Myopathies represent a heterogeneous group of skeletal muscle disorders characterized by
morphological and functional changes in the muscle, such as replacement of muscle tissue …

The ENMC consortium on distal myopathies held its 3rd workshop in Naarden, The
Netherlands, February 6–8th, 2009. The workshop was attended by 23 active participants …

The TREAT-NMD workshop on pattern recognition by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of
skeletal muscle is one in a series of workshops that have been organised by TREAT-NMD to …

Background Myosin heavy chain 7 related myopathies are rare disorders characterized by a
wide phenotypic spectrum and heterogeneous pathological features. In the present study …

Great technologic and clinical progress have been made in the last two decades in
identifying genetic defects of several neuromuscular diseases, as Spinal Muscular Atrophy …

Interest in muscle MRI has been largely stimulated in the last few years by the recognition of
an increasing number of genetic defects in the field of inherited neuromuscular disorders …