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J Neurol ; 269(5): 2414-2429, 2022 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34559299

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BACKGROUND: LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy (LAMA2-RD) encompasses a group of recessive muscular dystrophies caused by mutations in the LAMA2 gene, which codes for the alpha-2 chain of laminin-211 (merosin). Diagnosis is straightforward in the classic congenital presentation with no ambulation and complete merosin deficiency in muscle biopsy, but is far more difficult in milder ambulant individuals with partial merosin deficiency. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnostic utility of muscle imaging in LAMA2-RD using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WBMRI). RESULTS: 27 patients (2-62 years, 21-80% with acquisition of walking ability and 6 never ambulant) were included in an international collaborative study. All carried two pathogenic mutations, mostly private missense changes. An intronic variant (c.909 + 7A > G) was identified in all the Chilean cases. Three patients (two ambulant) showed intellectual disability, epilepsy, and brain structural abnormalities. WBMRI T1w sequences or T2 fat-saturated images (Dixon) revealed abnormal muscle fat replacement predominantly in subscapularis, lumbar paraspinals, gluteus minimus and medius, posterior thigh (adductor magnus, biceps femoris, hamstrings) and soleus. This involvement pattern was consistent for both ambulant and non-ambulant patients. The degree of replacement was predominantly correlated to the disease duration, rather than to the onset or the clinical severity. A "COL6-like sandwich sign" was observed in several muscles in ambulant adults, but different involvement of subscapularis, gluteus minimus, and medius changes allowed distinguishing LAMA2-RD from collagenopathies. The thigh muscles seem to be the best ones to assess disease progression. CONCLUSION: WBMRI in LAMA2-RD shows a homogeneous pattern of brain and muscle imaging, representing a supportive diagnostic tool.


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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Distrofias Musculares , Adulto , Humanos , Laminina/genética , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/congênito , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Imagem Corporal Total
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Neuromuscul Disord ; 31(3): 249-252, 2021 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33546848

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A 63 year old male presented with a 20 year history of facial weakness and several years of nasal regurgitation and dysphonia. Examination revealed bilateral facial weakness with nasal speech. Serum creatine kinase was 918 U/L. Neurophysiological studies suggested a myopathy and biopsy of the left vastus lateralis showed serpentine basophilic inclusions in the sarcoplasm and strong oxidative enzyme activity suggesting mitochondria accumulation. The muscle MRI showed selective fatty replacement within semitendinosus, gastrocnemius and soleus indicative of a desminopathy. A heterozygous missense variant c.17C>G (p.Ser6Trp) was identified within DES, predicted to be pathogenic in silico and previously described in a family with distal limb weakness. There are no previous case reports of desminopathy presenting with facial weakness, to our knowledge. Diagnosis was suggested following myoimaging of clinically unaffected muscles. Our study highlights the importance of muscle MRI in the diagnostic evaluation of muscle disease and further expands the known phenotypic heterogeneity of desminopathies.


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Cardiomiopatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculos Faciais/diagnóstico por imagem , Extremidade Inferior/diagnóstico por imagem , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Debilidade Muscular/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Heterozigoto , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto
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BMC Neurol ; 21(1): 13, 2021 Jan 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33430797

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BACKGROUND: Dystrophinopathies are the most common type of inherited muscular diseases. Muscle biopsy and genetic tests are effective to diagnose the disease but cost much more than primary hospitals can reach. The more available muscle MRI is promising but its diagnostic results highly depends on doctors' experiences. This study intends to explore a way of deploying a deep learning model for muscle MRI images to diagnose dystrophinopathies. METHODS: This study collected 2536 T1WI images from 432 cases who had been diagnosed by genetic analysis and/or muscle biopsy, including 148 cases with dystrophinopathies and 284 cases with other diseases. The data was randomly divided into three sets: the data from 233 cases were used to train the CNN model, the data from 97 cases for the validation experiments, and the data from 102 cases for the test experiments. We also validated our models expertise at diagnosing by comparing the model's results on the 102 cases with those of three skilled radiologists. RESULTS: The proposed model achieved 91% (95% CI: 0.88, 0.93) accuracy on the test set, higher than the best accuracy of 84% in radiologists. It also performed better than the skilled radiologists in sensitivity : sensitivities of the models and the doctors were 0.89 (95% CI: 0.85 0.93) versus 0.79 (95% CI:0.73, 0.84; p = 0.190). CONCLUSIONS: The deep model achieved excellent accuracy and sensitivity in identifying cases with dystrophinopathies. The comparable performance of the model and skilled radiologists demonstrates the potential application of the model in diagnosing dystrophinopathies through MRI images.


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Aprendizado Profundo , Interpretação de Imagem Assistida por Computador/métodos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Coxa da Perna , Adulto Jovem
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J Med Genet ; 58(11): 743-751, 2021 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32978268

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnostic value of implementing a stepwise genetic testing strategy (SGTS) in genetically unsolved cases with dystrophinopathies. METHODS: After routine genetic testing in 872 male patients with highly suspected dystrophinopathies, we identified 715 patients with a pathogenic DMD variant. Of the 157 patients who had no pathogenic DMD variants and underwent a muscle biopsy, 142 patients were confirmed to have other myopathies, and 15 suspected dystrophinopathies remained genetically undiagnosed. These 15 patients underwent a more comprehensive evaluation as part of the SGTS pipeline, which included the stepwise analysis of dystrophin mRNA, short-read whole-gene DMD sequencing, long-read whole-gene DMD sequencing and in silico bioinformatic analyses. RESULTS: SGTS successfully yielded a molecular diagnosis of dystrophinopathy in 11 of the 15 genetically unsolved cases. We identified 8 intronic and 2 complex structural variants (SVs) leading to aberrant splicing in 10 of 11 patients, of which 9 variants were novel. In one case, a molecular defect was detected on mRNA and protein level only. Aberrant splicing mechanisms included 6 pseudoexon inclusions and 4 alterations of splice sites and splicing regulatory elements. We showed for the first time the exonisation of a MER48 element as a novel pathogenic mechanism in dystrophinopathies. CONCLUSION: Our study highlights the high diagnostic utility of implementing a SGTS pipeline in dystrophinopathies with intronic variants and complex SVs.


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Distrofina/genética , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Adolescente , Biópsia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Éxons , Testes Genéticos/métodos , Humanos , Íntrons , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Adulto Jovem
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Minerva Med ; 112(2): 269-280, 2021 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32700864

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Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a genetic heart muscle disease caused by mutations of desmosomal genes in about 50% of patients. Affected patients may have defective non-desmosomal genes. The ACM phenotype may occur in other genetic cardiomyopathies, cardio-cutaneous syndromes or neuromuscular disorders. A sizeable proportion of patients have non-genetic diseases with clinical features resembling ACM (phenocopies). The identification of biventricular and left-dominant phenotypic variants has made differential diagnosis more difficult because of the broader spectrum of phenocopies which requires a detailed clinical study with appropriate evaluation of most prominent and discriminatory disease features. Conditions that enter into differential diagnosis of ACM include heart muscle diseases affecting the right ventricle, the left ventricle, or both. To confirm a conclusive diagnosis of ACM, these differential possibilities need to be reasonably excluded by an accurate and targeted clinical evaluation. This article reviews the clinical and imaging features of major phenocopies of ACM and provides indications for differential diagnosis. The recent etiologic classification of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies, whose common denominator is the distinctive phenotype characterized by a hypokinetic and non-dilated ventricle with a large amount of myocardial fibrosis underlying its propensity to generate ventricular arrhythmias is also addressed.


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Displasia Arritmogênica Ventricular Direita/diagnóstico por imagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Displasia Arritmogênica Ventricular Direita/genética , Cardiomegalia Induzida por Exercícios , Cardiomiopatias/diagnóstico , Cardiomiopatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Cardiomiopatia Dilatada/diagnóstico por imagem , Cardiomiopatia Chagásica/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Anomalia de Ebstein/diagnóstico por imagem , Feminino , Fibrose , Cardiopatias Congênitas/diagnóstico por imagem , Cardiopatias Congênitas/genética , Humanos , Hipertensão Pulmonar/diagnóstico por imagem , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Miocardite/diagnóstico por imagem , Miocárdio/patologia , Fenótipo , Veias Pulmonares/anormalidades , Veias Pulmonares/diagnóstico por imagem , Sarcoidose/diagnóstico por imagem , Adulto Jovem
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Acta Neuropathol Commun ; 8(1): 204, 2020 11 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33239111

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Oculopharyngodistal myopathy (OPDM) is a rare hereditary muscle disease characterized by progressive distal limb weakness, ptosis, ophthalmoplegia, bulbar muscle weakness and rimmed vacuoles on muscle biopsy. Recently, CGG repeat expansions in the noncoding regions of two genes, LRP12 and GIPC1, have been reported to be causative for OPDM. Furthermore, neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) has been recently reported to be caused by CGG repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC. We aimed to identify and to clinicopathologically characterize patients with OPDM who have CGG repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC (OPDM_NOTCH2NLC). Note that 211 patients from 201 families, who were clinically or clinicopathologically diagnosed with OPDM or oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, were screened for CGG expansions in NOTCH2NLC by repeat primed-PCR. Clinical information and muscle pathology slides of identified patients with OPDM_NOTCH2NLC were re-reviewed. Intra-myonuclear inclusions were evaluated using immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy (EM). Seven Japanese OPDM patients had CGG repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC. All seven patients clinically demonstrated ptosis, ophthalmoplegia, dysarthria and muscle weakness; they myopathologically had intra-myonuclear inclusions stained with anti-poly-ubiquitinated proteins, anti-SUMO1 and anti-p62 antibodies, which were diagnostic of NIID (typically on skin biopsy), in addition to rimmed vacuoles. The sample for EM was available only from one patient, which demonstrated intranuclear inclusions of 12.6 ± 1.6 nm in diameter. We identified seven patients with OPDM_NOTCH2NLC. Our patients had various additional central and/or peripheral nervous system involvement, although all were clinicopathologically compatible; thus, they were diagnosed as having OPDM and expanding a phenotype of the neuromyodegenerative disease caused by CGG repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC.


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Músculo Esquelético/fisiopatologia , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Proteínas Adaptadoras de Transdução de Sinal/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Proteína-1 Relacionada a Receptor de Lipoproteína de Baixa Densidade/genética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/fisiopatologia , Receptores Notch/genética , Expansão das Repetições de Trinucleotídeos , Adulto Jovem
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Neurol Clin ; 38(3): 697-710, 2020 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32703477

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Inclusion body myositis is a slowly progressive myopathy, characteristically affecting quadriceps and long finger flexors. Atypical presentations do occur, however, and there is overlap with other myopathies, including inflammatory and hereditary etiologies. This article discusses atypical cases and differential diagnoses and considers the role of imaging and histopathology in differentiating inclusion body myositis.


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Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Miosite de Corpos de Inclusão/diagnóstico por imagem , Idoso , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Miosite/diagnóstico por imagem , Miosite/patologia , Miosite de Corpos de Inclusão/patologia
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JBJS Case Connect ; 10(2): e0392, 2020.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32649135

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CASE: An 18-year-old man with Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) noted difficulty of looking forward and discomfort swallowing and breathing because of his hyperextended neck. We treated his cervical deformity with posterior spinal correction and fusion alone. He underwent a tracheotomy because of lung function deterioration 2 years after cervical surgery. The tracheotomy was performed safely because the anterior cervical spine anatomy was normalized and soft tissues around trachea were preserved by the posterior cervical correction. CONCLUSION: Cervical hyperextension can be a problem in patients with UCMD. Posterior spinal correction and fusion may be a preferable solution.


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Vértebras Cervicais/cirurgia , Distrofias Musculares/cirurgia , Esclerose/cirurgia , Fusão Vertebral/métodos , Adolescente , Vértebras Cervicais/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Masculino , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Esclerose/diagnóstico por imagem
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Epilepsia ; 61(5): 971-983, 2020 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32266982

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OBJECTIVE: To delineate the epileptic phenotype of LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy (MD) and correlate it with the neuroradiological and muscle biopsy findings, as well as the functional motor phenotype. METHODS: Clinical, electrophysiological, neuroradiological, and histopathological data of 25 patients with diagnosis of LAMA2-related MD were analyzed. RESULTS: Epilepsy occurred in 36% of patients with LAMA2-related MD. Mean age at first seizure was 8 years. The most common presenting seizure type was focal-onset seizures with or without impaired awareness. Visual aura and autonomic signs, including vomiting, were frequently reported. Despite a certain degree of variability, bilateral occipital or temporo-occipital epileptiform abnormalities were by far the most commonly observed. Refractory epilepsy was found in 75% of these patients. Epilepsy in LAMA2-related MD was significantly more prevalent in those patients in whom the cortical malformations were more extensive. In contrast, the occurrence of epilepsy was not found to be associated with the patients' motor ability, the size of their white matter abnormalities, or the amount of residual merosin expressed on muscle. SIGNIFICANCE: The epileptic phenotype of LAMA2-related MD is characterized by focal seizures with prominent visual and autonomic features associated with EEG abnormalities that predominate in the posterior quadrants. A consistent correlation between epileptic phenotype and neuroimaging was identified, suggesting that the extension of the polymicrogyria may serve as a predictor of epilepsy occurrence.


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Distrofias Musculares/congênito , Adolescente , Idade de Início , Anticonvulsivantes/uso terapêutico , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/patologia , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Eletroencefalografia , Eletromiografia , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/tratamento farmacológico , Distrofias Musculares/fisiopatologia , Neuroimagem , Fenótipo , Adulto Jovem
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Cells ; 9(2)2020 02 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32053901

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Mutations in collagen VI genes cause two major clinical myopathies, Bethlem myopathy (BM) and Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD), and the rarer myosclerosis myopathy. In addition to congenital muscle weakness, patients affected by collagen VI-related myopathies show axial and proximal joint contractures, and distal joint hypermobility, which suggest the involvement of tendon function. To gain further insight into the role of collagen VI in human tendon structure and function, we performed ultrastructural, biochemical, and RT-PCR analysis on tendon biopsies and on cell cultures derived from two patients affected with BM and UCMD. In vitro studies revealed striking alterations in the collagen VI network, associated with disruption of the collagen VI-NG2 (Collagen VI-neural/glial antigen 2) axis and defects in cell polarization and migration. The organization of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, as regards collagens I and XII, was also affected, along with an increase in the active form of metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2). In agreement with the in vitro alterations, tendon biopsies from collagen VI-related myopathy patients displayed striking changes in collagen fibril morphology and cell death. These data point to a critical role of collagen VI in tendon matrix organization and cell behavior. The remodeling of the tendon matrix may contribute to the muscle dysfunction observed in BM and UCMD patients.


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Colágeno Tipo VI/genética , Contratura/genética , Metaloproteinase 2 da Matriz/genética , Distrofias Musculares/congênito , Esclerose/genética , Antígenos/genética , Biópsia , Polaridade Celular/genética , Contratura/diagnóstico por imagem , Contratura/patologia , Matriz Extracelular/genética , Matriz Extracelular/metabolismo , Feminino , Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Fibroblastos/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Músculo Esquelético/ultraestrutura , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Distrofias Musculares/patologia , Mutação/genética , Proteoglicanas/genética , Esclerose/diagnóstico por imagem , Esclerose/patologia , Tendões/diagnóstico por imagem , Tendões/patologia , Tendões/ultraestrutura
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Neurology ; 94(10): e1094-e1102, 2020 03 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32029545

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OBJECTIVE: Genetic diagnosis of muscular dystrophies (MDs) has classically been guided by clinical presentation, muscle biopsy, and muscle MRI data. Muscle MRI suggests diagnosis based on the pattern of muscle fatty replacement. However, patterns overlap between different disorders and knowledge about disease-specific patterns is limited. Our aim was to develop a software-based tool that can recognize muscle MRI patterns and thus aid diagnosis of MDs. METHODS: We collected 976 pelvic and lower limbs T1-weighted muscle MRIs from 10 different MDs. Fatty replacement was quantified using Mercuri score and files containing the numeric data were generated. Random forest supervised machine learning was applied to develop a model useful to identify the correct diagnosis. Two thousand different models were generated and the one with highest accuracy was selected. A new set of 20 MRIs was used to test the accuracy of the model, and the results were compared with diagnoses proposed by 4 specialists in the field. RESULTS: A total of 976 lower limbs MRIs from 10 different MDs were used. The best model obtained had 95.7% accuracy, with 92.1% sensitivity and 99.4% specificity. When compared with experts on the field, the diagnostic accuracy of the model generated was significantly higher in a new set of 20 MRIs. CONCLUSION: Machine learning can help doctors in the diagnosis of muscle dystrophies by analyzing patterns of muscle fatty replacement in muscle MRI. This tool can be helpful in daily clinics and in the interpretation of the results of next-generation sequencing tests. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE: This study provides Class II evidence that a muscle MRI-based artificial intelligence tool accurately diagnoses muscular dystrophies.


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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/normas , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Aprendizado de Máquina Supervisionado , Adulto , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Modelos Teóricos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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Orphanet J Rare Dis ; 14(1): 250, 2019 11 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31747956

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BACKGROUND: Dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)-related muscular dystrophies may present similar clinical and pathological features as well as undetectable mutations thus being sometimes difficult to distinguish. We investigated the value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis of DGC-related muscular dystrophies and reported the largest series of Chinese patients with sarcoglycanopathies studied by muscle MRI. RESULTS: Fifty-five patients with DGC-related muscular dystrophies, including 22 with confirmed sarcoglycanopathies, 11 with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I (LGMD2I, FKRP-associated dystroglycanopathy), and 22 with dystrophinopathies underwent extensive clinical evaluation, muscle biopsies, genetic analysis, and muscle MRI examinations. Hierarchical clustering of patients according to the clinical characteristics showed that patients did not cluster according to the genotypes. No statistically significant differences were observed between sarcoglycanopathies and LGMD2I in terms of thigh muscle involvement. The concentric fatty infiltration pattern was observed not only in different sarcoglycanopathies (14/22) but also in LGMD2I (9/11). The trefoil with single fruit sign was observed in most patients with dystrophinopathies (21/22), and a few patients with sarcoglycanopathies (4/22) or LGMD2I (2/11). Hierarchical clustering showed that most patients with sarcoglycanopathies or LGMD2I can be distinguished from dystrophinopathies based on the concentric fatty infiltration pattern and trefoil with single fruit sign at the thigh level on muscle MRI. CONCLUSIONS: Muscle MRI at the thigh level potentially allows distinction of sarcoglycanopathies or FKRP-associated dystroglycanopathy from dystrophinopathies.


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Diagnóstico Diferencial , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Adulto , Biópsia , Distrofina/genética , Distrofina/metabolismo , Feminino , Glicoproteínas/metabolismo , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Distrofia Muscular do Cíngulo dos Membros/diagnóstico , Distrofia Muscular do Cíngulo dos Membros/diagnóstico por imagem , Mutação
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World Neurosurg ; 126: e173-e180, 2019 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30797914

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the safety and effectiveness of the combined halo gravity traction and dual growing rod technique in achieving and maintaining scoliosis correction while allowing spinal growth. METHODS: From January 2014 to July 2017, 11 patients with dystrophic neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)-associated scoliosis, including 7 men and 4 women, underwent combined halo gravity traction and dual growing rod technique procedures. Diagnoses were all dystrophic NF1-associated scoliosis. Patients with a Cobb angle of major curve >60° and flexibility of spine <30% were included in our research. Analysis included age at the time of treatment, levels of instrumentation, number and frequency of lengthening, lengthening distance, and complications. The changes in Cobb angle of scoliosis and T1-S1 length of spine over the treatment period were measured by radiographic evaluation. RESULTS: The average age of treated patients was 7.2 years (range, 5-9 years). Growing rods were lengthened every 6 months through exposure. The mean number of times of lengthening was 3.9 (range, 3-5). The distance of each extension was 1.6 cm (range, 1.0-2.0 cm). The Cobb angle was corrected 41.7% on average after traction, 48.4% after initial surgery, and 53.3% at the last follow-up. T1-S1 length increased 3.4 cm (range, 1.2-5.1 cm) on average over a mean treatment period of 2.2 years, with an average of 1.5 cm/y (range, 0.5-2.3 cm/y). During the treatment period, complication of hook dislodgement occurred in 1 of 11 patients (9.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The combined halo gravity traction and dual growing rod technique can safely and effectively correct NF1-associated scoliosis. This is an ongoing study that requires long-term follow-up.


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Fixadores Externos , Distrofias Musculares/etiologia , Distrofias Musculares/terapia , Neurofibromatose 1/complicações , Escoliose/etiologia , Escoliose/terapia , Tração/métodos , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Masculino , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Neurofibromatose 1/diagnóstico por imagem , Aparelhos Ortopédicos , Escoliose/diagnóstico por imagem , Tração/instrumentação , Resultado do Tratamento
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J Neurol ; 266(4): 934-941, 2019 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30706156

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BACKGROUND: Bethlem myopathy represents the milder phenotype of collagen type VI-related myopathies. However, clinical manifestations are highly variable among patients and no phenotype-genotype correlation has been described. We aim to analyse the clinical, pathological and genetic features of a series of patients with Bethlem myopathy, and we describe seven new mutations. METHODS: A series of 16 patients with the diagnosis of Bethlem myopathy were analyzed retrospectively from their medical records for clinical, creatine kinase (CK), muscle biopsy, and muscle magnetic resonance (MRI) data. Genetic testing was performed through next-generation sequencing of custom amplicon-based targeted genes panel of myopathies. Mutations were confirmed by Sanger sequencing. RESULTS: The most frequent phenotype consisted of proximal limb weakness associated with interphalangeal and wrists contractures. However, cases with isolated contractures or isolated myopathy were found. CK levels did not correlate with severity of the disease. The most frequent mutation was the COL6A3 variant c.7447A>G, p.Lys2486Glu, with either an homozygous or compound heterozygous presentation. Five new mutations were found in COL6A1 gene and other two in COL6A3 gene, all of them with a dominant heritability pattern. From these, a new COL6A1 mutation (c.1657G>A, p.Glu553Arg) was related to an oligosymptomatic phenotype with predominating contractures in the absence of weakness and a normal muscle MRI. Finally, the most common COL6A1 mutation reported to date that leads to an Ullrich phenotype (c. 868G>A, p.Gly290Arg), has been found here as Bethlem presentation. CONCLUSIONS: Manifestations of Bethlem myopathy are quite variable, so either contractures or weakness may be lacking, and no phenotype-genotype associations can be brought.


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Contratura/genética , Distrofias Musculares/congênito , Mutação , Adulto , Idoso , Colágeno Tipo VI/genética , Contratura/diagnóstico por imagem , Contratura/patologia , Creatina Quinase/metabolismo , Feminino , Seguimentos , Genes Dominantes , Estudos de Associação Genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Distrofias Musculares/patologia , Fenótipo , Estudos Retrospectivos , Adulto Jovem
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Clin Nucl Med ; 43(9): e316-e318, 2018 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30004941

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A 38-year-old woman presented with extreme fatigue and multiple lung nodules. She was referred for a PET/CT, which demonstrated multiple FDG-avid pulmonary nodules and lymph nodes with intense uptake within multiple muscle groups predominantly involving the paraspinal muscles and muscles of mastication. Histopathology of a paraspinal muscle biopsy revealed increased skeletal muscle lipid stores and increased mitochondria with normal morphology. This abnormality is seen in metabolic myopathy due to a disorder of fatty acid oxidation. Transbronchial biopsy showed no evidence of sarcoidosis. The patient was commenced on carnitine and riboflavin supplementation, and a follow-up PET/CT was performed.


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Erros Inatos do Metabolismo Lipídico/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons combinada à Tomografia Computadorizada , Adulto , Ácidos Graxos/metabolismo , Feminino , Fluordesoxiglucose F18 , Seguimentos , Humanos , Erros Inatos do Metabolismo Lipídico/metabolismo , Distrofias Musculares/metabolismo , Oxirredução , Músculos Paraespinais/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculos Paraespinais/metabolismo , Compostos Radiofarmacêuticos
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Neurology ; 91(4): e339-e348, 2018 07 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29950440

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OBJECTIVE: To describe a large series of BIN1 patients, in which a novel founder mutation in the Roma population of southern Spain has been identified. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with centronuclear myopathy (CNM) at 5 major reference centers for neuromuscular disease in Spain (n = 53) were screened for BIN1 mutations. Clinical, histologic, radiologic, and genetic features were analyzed. RESULTS: Eighteen patients from 13 families carried the p.Arg234Cys variant; 16 of them were homozygous for it and 2 had compound heterozygous p.Arg234Cys/p.Arg145Cys mutations. Both BIN1 variants have only been identified in Roma, causing 100% of CNM in this ethnic group in our cohort. The haplotype analysis confirmed all families are related. In addition to clinical features typical of CNM, such as proximal limb weakness and ophthalmoplegia, most patients in our cohort presented with prominent axial weakness, often associated with rigid spine. Severe fat replacement of paravertebral muscles was demonstrated by muscle imaging. This phenotype seems to be specific to the p.Arg234Cys mutation, not reported in other BIN1 mutations. Extreme clinical variability was observed in the 2 compound heterozygous patients for the p.Arg234Cys/p.Arg145Cys mutations, from a congenital onset with catastrophic outcome to a late-onset disease. Screening of European Roma controls (n = 758) for the p.Arg234Cys variant identified a carrier frequency of 3.5% among the Spanish Roma. CONCLUSION: We have identified a BIN1 founder Roma mutation associated with a highly specific phenotype, which is, from the present cohort, the main cause of CNM in Spain.


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Proteínas Adaptadoras de Transdução de Sinal/genética , Efeito Fundador , Corpos de Mallory/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Mutação/genética , Miopatias Congênitas Estruturais/genética , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Roma (Grupo Étnico)/genética , Escoliose/genética , Proteínas Supressoras de Tumor/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Estudos de Coortes , Humanos , Corpos de Mallory/genética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Distrofias Musculares/etnologia , Miopatias Congênitas Estruturais/diagnóstico por imagem , Miopatias Congênitas Estruturais/etnologia , Fenótipo , Estudos Prospectivos , Estudos Retrospectivos , Roma (Grupo Étnico)/etnologia , Escoliose/diagnóstico por imagem , Escoliose/etnologia , Espanha/etnologia , Adulto Jovem
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J Clin Neuromuscul Dis ; 19(3): 108-116, 2018 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29465610

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OBJECTIVES: COL6A and LAMA2 are subtypes of congenital muscular dystrophy. METHODS: Retrospective chart review of clinical findings, spirometry, muscle histology, muscle ultrasound, neuroimaging, and Electromyography (EMG)/Nerve Conduction Study data in genetically confirmed COL6A and LAMA2 subjects. RESULTS: We identified 8 COL6A and 6 LAMA2 subjects: the female-to-male ratio was 1.3:1 and the mean age was 11.9 ± 3.6 years. Gross motor delays since birth, proximal muscle weakness, and contractures were noted in both groups. Joint hyperlaxity and skin changes (follicular hyperkeratosis and muscle biopsy scar thinning) were unique to COL6A. Severe scoliosis, macrocephaly, and nonambulatory status were common in LAMA2. Increasing age was associated with poor respiratory function in COL6A. There was central "cloud appearance" on rectus femoris muscle ultrasound in COL6A and white matter T2 hyperintensity on brain magnetic resonance imaging in LAMA2. LAMA2 also showed demyelinating polyneuropathy. Neurogenic changes on EMG and muscle histology were noted in 37% and 33% of COL6A cases, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: COL6A has unique skin changes, central cloud appearance on muscle ultrasound. LAMA2 has demyelinating polyneuropathy and white matter changes on brain imaging. The presence of neurogenic changes on EMG and muscle histology in COL6A suggests motor axonal neuropathy. Genetic testing remains the gold standard in confirming COL6A congenital muscular dystrophy.


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Colágeno Tipo VI/genética , Laminina/genética , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Distrofias Musculares/fisiopatologia , Mutação/genética , Potenciais de Ação/genética , Adolescente , Criança , Eletromiografia , Feminino , Testes Genéticos , Humanos , Masculino , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Condução Nervosa/fisiologia , Neuroimagem , Estudos Retrospectivos
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Muscle Nerve ; 57(2): 330-334, 2018 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28224639

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INTRODUCTION: Bcl-2-associated athanogene-3 (BAG3) mutations have been described in rare cases of rapidly progressive myofibrillar myopathies. Symptoms begin in the first decade with axial involvement and contractures and are associated with cardiac and respiratory impairment in the second decade. Axonal neuropathy has been documented but usually not as a key clinical feature. METHODS: We report a 24-year-old woman with severe rigid spine syndrome and sensory-motor neuropathy resembling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). RESULTS: Muscle MRI showed severe fat infiltration without any specific pattern. Deltoid muscle biopsy showed neurogenic changes and discrete myofibrillar abnormalities. Electrocardiogram and transthoracic echocardiography results were normal. Genetic analysis of a panel of 45 CMT genes showed no mutation. BAG3 gene screening identified the previously reported c.626C>T, pPro209Leu, mutation. DISCUSSION: This case indicates that rigid spine syndrome and sensory-motor axonal neuropathy are key clinical features of BAG3 mutations that should be considered even without cardiac involvement. Muscle Nerve, 57: 330-334, 2018.


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Proteínas Adaptadoras de Transdução de Sinal/genética , Proteínas Reguladoras de Apoptose/genética , Doença de Charcot-Marie-Tooth/genética , Neuropatia Hereditária Motora e Sensorial/genética , Corpos de Mallory/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/genética , Escoliose/genética , Biópsia , Doença de Charcot-Marie-Tooth/complicações , Doença de Charcot-Marie-Tooth/diagnóstico por imagem , Eletrodiagnóstico , Feminino , Cardiopatias/complicações , Neuropatia Hereditária Motora e Sensorial/complicações , Neuropatia Hereditária Motora e Sensorial/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Corpos de Mallory/genética , Músculo Esquelético/diagnóstico por imagem , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Distrofias Musculares/complicações , Distrofias Musculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Mutação/genética , Escoliose/complicações , Escoliose/diagnóstico por imagem , Adulto Jovem
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