Upper limb strength and function changes during a one-year follow-up in non-ambulant patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: an observational multicenter trial.

INTRODUCTION:Upper limb evaluation of patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is crucially important to evaluations of efficacy of new treatments in non-ambulant patients. In patients who have lost ambulation, there are few validated and informative outcome measures. In addition, longitudinal data...

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Main Authors: Andreea Mihaela Seferian, Amélie Moraux, Mélanie Annoussamy, Aurélie Canal, Valérie Decostre, Oumar Diebate, Anne-Gaëlle Le Moing, Teresa Gidaro, Nicolas Deconinck, Frauke Van Parys, Wendy Vereecke, Sylvia Wittevrongel, Michèle Mayer, Kim Maincent, Isabelle Desguerre, Christine Thémar-Noël, Jean-Marie Cuisset, Vincent Tiffreau, Severine Denis, Virginie Jousten, Susana Quijano-Roy, Thomas Voit, Jean-Yves Hogrel, Laurent Servais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4314080?pdf=render