Muscle involvement assessed by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in patients with anoctamin 5 deficiency

Tahmina Khawajazada, Konni Kass, Karen Rudolf, Josefine de Stricker Borch, Aisha Munawar Sheikh, Nanna Witting, John Vissing

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and stationary dynamometry, the aim was to investigate the muscle affection in paraspinal muscles and lower extremities and compare the muscle affection in men and women with anoctamin 5 (ANO5) deficiency.

METHODS: Seventeen patients (seven women) with pathogenic ANO5-mutations were included. Quantitative muscle fat fraction of back and leg muscles were assessed by Dixon MRI. Muscle strength was assessed by stationary dynamometer. Results were compared with 11 matched, healthy controls.

RESULTS: Muscle involvement pattern in men with ANO5-deficiency is characterized by a severe fat replacement of hamstrings, adductor and gastrocnemius muscles, while paraspinal muscles are only mildly affected, while preserved gracilis and sartorius muscles were hypertrophied. Women with ANO5-myopathy, of the same age as male patients, were very mildly affected, showing muscle affection and strength resembling that found in healthy persons, with the exception of the gluteus minimus and medius and gastrocnemii muscles that were significantly replaced by fat. Although individual muscles showed clear asymmetric involvement in a few muscle groups, the overall muscle involvement was symmetric.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with ANO5-deficiency have relatively preserved paraspinal muscles on imaging and only mild reduction of trunk extension strength in men only. Our study quantifies the large difference in muscle affection in lower extremity between women and men with ANO5-deficiency. The clinical notion is that affection may be very asymmetric in ANO5-deficiency, but the present study shows that while this may be true for a few muscles, the general impression is that muscle affection is very symmetric.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Neurology
Volume28
Issue number9
Pages (from-to)3121-3132
Number of pages12
ISSN1351-5101
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2021

Keywords

  • Anoctamins
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leg
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Muscle Strength
  • Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging

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