Electrical impedance myography in the bedside assessment of inflammatory myopathy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Electrical impedance myography (EIM) is a new technique with potential for the noninvasive bedside assessment of myopathy. EIM was performed on the quadriceps of 10 patients with inflammatory myopathy and 10 normal subjects. The major EIM parameter, the spatially averaged phase, was 35% lower in the myositis patients and correlated with whole-body (r = 0.765, p = 0.01) and quadriceps (r = 0.673, p = 0.03) strength.

publication date

  • August 9, 2005

Research

keywords

  • Electrodiagnosis
  • Muscle, Skeletal
  • Myositis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 23244462551

PubMed ID

  • 16087913

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 65

issue

  • 3