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    Muscle & Nerve: Volume 55, Issue 6

    i-vi, 773-937, E24-E28
    June 2017
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Issue Information - Masthead

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  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

  • Pages: iii-v
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Issue Highlights

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Selected Highlights in the June, 2017

  • Page: vi
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Editorials

Start high, then go low: An effective strategy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis

Nicholas J. Silvestri MD,  Gil I. Wolfe MD, 
  • Pages: 773-774
  • First Published: 27 March 2017

Subcutaneous versus intravenous immunoglobulin for chronic autoimmune neuropathies

Elie Naddaf MD,  M. Hassan Murad MD,  P. James B. Dyck MD, 
  • Pages: 775-776
  • First Published: 10 March 2017

Cardiac involvement in female carriers of Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy

Martin K. Childers DO, PhD,  Jordan M. Klaiman PhD, 
  • Pages: 777-779
  • First Published: 10 April 2017

Obituary

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In memoriam: Lewis “Bud” Rowland, M.D.

Clifton Gooch MD,  Louis Weimer MD, 
  • Pages: 780-781
  • First Published: 17 April 2017

AANEM Monograph

The thoracic outlet syndromes: Part 1. Overview of the thoracic outlet syndromes and review of true neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome

Mark A. Ferrante MD,  Nicole D. Ferrante MD, 
  • Pages: 782-793
  • First Published: 22 December 2016

Clinical Research

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Early fast-acting treatment strategy against generalized myasthenia gravis

Kimiaki Utsugisawa MD,  Yuriko Nagane MD,  Tetsuya Akaishi MD,  Yasushi Suzuki MD,  Tomihiro Imai MD,  Emiko Tsuda MD,  Naoya Minami MD,  Akiyuki Uzawa MD,  Naoki Kawaguchi MD,  Masayuki Masuda MD,  Shingo Konno MD,  Hidekazu Suzuki MD,  Hiroyuki Murai MD,  Masashi Aoki MD, 
  • Pages: 794-801
  • First Published: 07 September 2016

Subcutaneous versus intravenous immunoglobulin for chronic autoimmune neuropathies: A meta-analysis

Juan M. Racosta MD,  Luciano A. Sposato MD,  Kurt Kimpinski MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 802-809
  • First Published: 20 September 2016

Cardiac involvement in female carriers of duchenne or becker muscular dystrophy

Thomas Mccaffrey MB, BS,  Michela Guglieri MD,  Alexander P. Murphy MB, ChB,  Katherine Bushby MD, PhD,  Anna Johnson MSc,  John P. Bourke MD, 
  • Pages: 810-818
  • First Published: 19 October 2016

Prevalence and clinical aspects of immigrants with myasthenia gravis in northern Europe

Marion Ingeborg Boldingh MD,  Angelina Maniaol MD, PhD,  Cathrine Brunborg,  Luuk Dekker MD,  Alexander Lipka MD,  Erik Harmen Niks MD, PhD,  Jan Verschuuren MD, PhD,  Chantal Tallaksen MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 819-827
  • First Published: 19 September 2016

Selectivity of conventional electrodes for recording motor evoked potentials: An investigation with high-density surface electromyography

Alessio Gallina MSc,  Sue Peters MPT,  Jason L. Neva PhD,  Lara A. Boyd PhD,  S. Jayne Garland PhD, 
  • Pages: 828-834
  • First Published: 20 September 2016

Late-onset pompe disease in Iran: A clinical and genetic report

Ferdos Nazari MD,  Farnaz Sinaei MD,  Yalda Nilipour MD,  Farzad Fatehi MD,  Berthold Streubel PhD,  Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi MD,  Omid Aryani MD,  Shahriar Nafissi MD, 
  • Pages: 835-840
  • First Published: 20 September 2016

Muscle MRI of classic infantile pompe patients: Fatty substitution and edema-like changes

Anna Pichiecchio MD,  Marta Rossi MD,  Claudia Cinnante MD,  Giovanna Stefania Colafati MD,  Roberto De Icco MD,  Rossella Parini MD,  Francesca Menni MD,  Francesca Furlan MD,  Alberto Burlina MD,  Michele Sacchini MD,  Maria Alice Donati MD,  Simona Fecarotta PhD, MD,  Roberto Della Casa MD,  Federica Deodato MD,  Roberta Taurisano MD,  Maja Di Rocco MD, 
  • Pages: 841-848
  • First Published: 26 September 2016

Ultrasound versus MRI in common fibular neuropathy

Bianca Bignotti MD,  Andrea Assini MD,  Alessio Signori PhD,  Carlo Martinoli MD,  Alberto Tagliafico MD, 
  • Pages: 849-857
  • First Published: 26 September 2016

Lesion distribution among 281 patients with sporadic neuralgic amyotrophy

Mark A. Ferrante MD,  Asa J. Wilbourn MD, 
  • Pages: 858-861
  • First Published: 28 September 2016

Intermuscular coherence in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A preliminary assessment

Naoum P. Issa MD, PhD,  Samuel Frank BA,  Raymond P. Roos MD,  Betty Soliven MD,  Vernon L. Towle PhD,  Kourosh Rezania MD, 
  • Pages: 862-868
  • First Published: 03 October 2016

Revised upper limb module for spinal muscular atrophy: Development of a new module

Elena S. Mazzone PT,  Anna Mayhew PT,  Jacqueline Montes PT,  Danielle Ramsey PT,  Lavinia Fanelli PT,  Sally Dunaway Young PT,  Rachel Salazar PT,  Roberto De Sanctis PT,  Amy Pasternak PT,  Allan Glanzman PT,  Giorgia Coratti PT,  Matthew Civitello PT,  Nicola Forcina PT,  Richard Gee PT,  Tina Duong PT,  Marika Pane MD,  Mariacristina Scoto MD,  Maria Carmela Pera MD,  Sonia Messina MD,  Gihan Tennekoon MD,  John W. Day MD,  Basil T. Darras MD,  Darryl C. De Vivo MD,  Richard Finkel MD,  Francesco Muntoni MD,  Eugenio Mercuri MD, 
  • Pages: 869-874
  • First Published: 04 October 2016
Open Access

Feasibility and tolerability of whole-body, low-intensity vibration and its effects on muscle function and bone in patients with dystrophinopathies: a pilot study

Anna Petryk MD,  Lynda E. Polgreen MD, MS,  Molly Grames DPT,  Dawn A. Lowe PhD,  James S. Hodges PhD,  Peter Karachunski MD, 
  • Pages: 875-883
  • First Published: 08 October 2016

Basic and Translational Science

Cellular infiltrates in skin and sural nerve of patients with polyneuropathies

Nurcan Üçeyler MD,  Silvia Braunsdorf,  Ekkehard Kunze MD,  Nadja Riediger,  Sarah Scheytt MD,  Šarka Divisova MD,  Can Ebru Bekircan-kurt MD,  Klaus Viktor Toyka MD,  Claudia Sommer MD, 
  • Pages: 884-893
  • First Published: 07 July 2016

Evidence for dying-back axonal degeneration in age-associated skeletal muscle decline

Tae Chung MD,  Jae Sung Park PhD,  Sangri Kim BS,  Nataly Montes MD,  Jeremy Walston MD,  Ahmet Höke MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 894-901
  • First Published: 27 July 2016

Using laser capture microdissection to study fiber specific signaling in locomotor muscle in COPD: A pilot study

Divya Mohan MB, BChir,  Amy Lewis PhD,  Mehul S. Patel MBBS, PhD,  Katrina J. Curtis MB, BChir,  Jen Y. Lee PhD,  Nicholas S. Hopkinson MB, BChir, PhD,  Ian B. Wilkinson MBBS,  Paul R. Kemp PhD,  Michael I. Polkey MBBS, PhD, 
  • Pages: 902-912
  • First Published: 28 September 2016

Short Reports

Neuromuscular ultrasound in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and normal nerve conduction studies

Fazila Aseem MPH,  Jessica W. Williams MD,  Francis O. Walker MD,  Michael S. Cartwright MD, MS, 
  • Pages: 913-915
  • First Published: 08 November 2016

Muscle fiber type proportion and size is not altered in mcardle disease

Franclo Henning MD,  Carol Anne Cunninghame BSc,  Miguel Angel Martín PhD,  Juan Carlos Rubio PhD,  Joaquín Arenas PhD,  Alejandro Lucia PhD,  Aurelio HernáNdez-Laín MD, PhD,  Tertius Abraham Kohn PhD, 
  • Pages: 916-918
  • First Published: 11 November 2016

Case of the Month

Severe defect in mitochondrial complex I assembly with mitochondrial DNA deletions in ACAD9-deficient mild myopathy

Konstantina Fragaki PhD,  Annabelle Chaussenot MD,  Audrey Boutron MD,  Sylvie Bannwarth PhD,  Charlotte Cochaud CT,  Christian Richelme MD,  Sabrina Sacconi MD, PhD,  Veronique Paquis-Flucklinger MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 919-922
  • First Published: 20 July 2016

Episodic weakness and Charcot–marie–tooth disease due to a mitochondrial MT-ATP6 mutation

Francis B. Panosyan MD, PhD,  Rabi Tawil MD,  David N. Herrmann MBBCh, 
  • Pages: 922-927
  • First Published: 26 October 2016

Letters to the Editor

Consider leprosy as an etiology of sensory neuronopathy

Khushnuma A. Mansukhani MBBS,  Satish V. Khadilkar MD, DM, 
  • Page: 928
  • First Published: 22 December 2016

A message from the “True” ground

Devon I. Rubin MD,  John C. Kincaid MD, 
  • Pages: 928-929
  • First Published: 17 January 2017

Reply

Lawrence R. Robinson MD,  Michael Christie BSECE,  Sanjeev Nandedkar PhD, 
  • Pages: 929-930
  • First Published: 17 January 2017

Is sarcopenia driven by motor neuron/unit loss? An unresolved question

W. David Arnold MD,  Brian C. Clark PhD, 
  • Page: 930
  • First Published: 22 March 2017

Reply

Kevin J. Gilmore BHSc (Hons),  Tobias Morat PhD,  Timothy J. Doherty MD, PhD,  Charles L. Rice PhD, 
  • Pages: 930-931
  • First Published: 22 March 2017

Calendar of Events

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Calendar of Events

  • Page: 932
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

AANEM News

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AANEM News

  • Pages: 933-935
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

AANEM Application

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AANEM Application

  • Pages: 936-937
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Noteworthy Cases

Genotype–phenotype correlation of F484L mutation in three Italian families with Thomsen myotonia

Marco Cassone MD,  Valentina Ferradini BS,  Giuliana Longo BS,  Paola Sarchielli MD, PhD,  Donatella Murasecco MD, PhD,  Michele Romoli MD,  Elisabetta Pasquini MD,  Giuseppe Novelli PhD,  Paolo Prontera MD, PhD,  Federica Sangiuolo PhD, 
  • Pages: E24-E25
  • First Published: 17 September 2016

A case of new-onset antibody-positive myasthenia gravis in a patient treated with pembrolizumab for melanoma

Iyad Alnahhas MD, MS,  Jason Wong MD, 
  • Pages: E25-E26
  • First Published: 09 December 2016

Sural neuropathy complicating ankle liposuction

Thananan Thammongkolchai MD,  Bashar Katirji MD, 
  • Pages: E26-E27
  • First Published: 21 December 2016

Isolated nerve plasmacytoma in a patient previously in systemic myeloma remission

Parvathi Menon PhD,  Winny Varikkat MBBS,  Steve Vucic PhD, 
  • Pages: E27-E28
  • First Published: 28 December 2016