Special issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Giovanni Nigro, on the 25th anniversary of the World Muscle Society constitution
Guest Editors
Luciano Merlini, Corrado Angelini, Giovanni Meola, Filippo Maria Santorelli
Issue presentation
EDITORIALS
Issue presentation
Luisa Politano, Vincenzo Nigro
25th Anniversary of the Founding of the World Muscle Society (1995-2020)
The contribution of Giovanni Nigro (1931-2017)
Luciano Merlini
Giovanni Nigro. A remembrance
Lefkos M. Middleton
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Causes of clinical variability in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and implications for exon skipping therapies
Eric P. Hoffman
Giovanni Nigro and the Naples’s school: historical contribution to the knowledge of heart involvement in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies
Luisa Politano
Impaired myocardial strain in early stage of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: its relation with age and motor performance
Lilia Oreto, Gian Luca Vita, Giuseppe Mandraffino, Scipione Carerj, Maria Pia Calabrò, Roberta Manganaro, Maurizio Cusmà-Piccione, Maria Chiara Todaro, Maria Sframeli, Maria Cinquegrani, Antonio Toscano, Giuseppe Vita, Sonia Messina, Concetta Zito
Quadriceps muscle strength in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and effect of corticosteroid treatment
Luciano Merlini, Ilaria Cecconi, Antonia Parmeggiani, Duccio Maria Cordelli, Ada Dormi
LGMD. Identification, description and classification
Corrado Angelini
Alpha-sarcoglycanopathy presenting as myalgia and hyperCKemia in two adults with a long-term follow-up. Case reports
Claudia Dosi, Anna Rubegni, Denise Cassandrini, Alessandro Malandrini, Lorenzo Maggi, M. Alice Donati, Filippo M. Santorelli
Myotonic dystrophy type 2: the 2020 update
Giovanni Meola
Late-onset myopathies – clinical features and diagnosis
Marianne de Visser
Panorama of the distal myopathies
Marco Savarese, Jaakko Sarparanta, Anna Vihola, Per Harald Jonson, Mridul Johari, Salla Rusanen, Peter Hackman, Biarne Udd
Core myopathies – a short review
Haluk Topaloglu
Dominant or recessive mutations in the RYR1 gene causing central core myopathy in Brazilian patients
Leonardo Galleni, Lucas Santos Souza, Leticia P. Nogueira, Rita de Cássia Mingroni Pavanello, Juliana Gurgel-Giannetti, Umbertina C. Reed, Acary S.B. Oliveira, Thais Cuperman, Ana Cotta, Julia FPaim, Mayana Zatz, Mariz Vainzof
The changing spectrum of drug-induced myopathies
Frank L. Mastaglia
Inflammatory myopathies: update on diagnosis, pathogenesis and therapies and COVID-19-related implications
Marinos C. Dalakas
Giant cell myositis and myocarditis revisited
Piraye Oflazer
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 on skeletal muscles
Maria Rita De Giorgio, Stefania Di Noia, Cinzia Morciano, Diana Conte
The correlation between cardiac and skeletal muscle pathology in animal models of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Francesco Prisco, Serenella Papparella, Orlando Paciello
Cutaneous and metabolic defects associated with nuclear abnormalities in a transgenic mouse model expressing R527H lamin. A mutation causing Mandibuloacral Dysplasia type A (MADA) syndrome
Maria Rosaria D’Apice, Angela De Dominicis, Michela Murdocca, Francesca Amati, Annalisa Botta, Federica Sangiuolo, Giovanna Lattanzi, Massimo Federici, Giuseppe Novelli
25 years of the SMN genes: the Copernican revolution of spinal muscular atrophy
Danilo Tiziano, Eduardo F. Tizzano
Myasthenia gravis: musk MG, late-onset MG and ocular MG
Feza Deymeer
Spinal cord injuries, human neuropathology and neurophysiology
Milan R. Dimitrijevic, Byron A. s Kakulas
News From Around The World
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
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