which mediate a skeletal muscle myopathy. Successful treatment of claudication and improvement in functional capacity must have a beneficial effect on one or more of these contributing factors.

Skeletal muscles come in a variety of shapes and sizes ... Individual muscles also have different susceptibilities to diseases like muscular dystrophy, muscle myopathies, and rhabdomyosarcoma.

More information: Cecilia Leijding et al, Serum from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy induces skeletal muscle weakness, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1136/ard-2024 ...

I am studying Laing Distal Myopathy (MPD1), an inherited condition that causes progressive muscle weakness in the extremities and has no cure. MPD1 is caused by mutations in β-myosin, the primary ...

Statin therapy has proven efficacy for reducing the incidence of major adverse clinical events, but when administered in high doses these agents can cause myopathy. A means to identify those at ...

Hirai DM, Belbis MD, Holmes MJ, Calvo N, Ferguson SK. The interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 may have consequences for skeletal muscle viral susceptibility and myopathies. J Appl Physiol 2020; ...

Cardiac muscle damage should also be considered when skeletal myopathy occurs. After a single oral dose of 5g, mean ± SD peak plasma concentrations (164 ± 28mcg/mL) were reached within 1.2 ± 0. ...