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Do you utilize muscle MRI to track disease progression in myopathies?

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Neurology · Hospital for Special Surgery

Muscle MRI can be helpful in assessing for active disease/inflammatory myopathy and can help sampling in a more targeted manner when considering a muscle biopsy. Fatty replacement is seen in more advanced cases of myopathy and has been used as a marker of disease progression in non-inflammatory/slow...

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