Relationship between muscle inflammation and fat replacement assessed by MRI in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

Julia Rebecka DahlqvistGrete AndersenTahmina KhawajazadaChristoffer VissingCarsten ThomsenJohn Vissing

Published in: Journal of neurology (2019)

Muscles with STIR+, indicating inflammation, have a faster progression of fat replacement than STIR- muscles, and the fat replacement progression correlated with the severity of STIR+.

Keyphrases

muscular dystrophy
adipose tissue
oxidative stress
fatty acid
duchenne muscular dystrophy
magnetic resonance imaging
skeletal muscle
contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance
diffusion weighted imaging