Application of ultrasound for muscle assessment in sarcopenia: 2020 SARCUS update

S Perkisas, S Bastijns, S Baudry, J Bauer… - European geriatric …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose In 2018, the SARCUS working group published a first article on the standardization
of the use of ultrasound to assess muscle. Recommendations were made for patient …

It is not just muscle mass: a review of muscle quality, composition and metabolism during ageing as determinants of muscle function and mobility in later life

RA McGregor, D Cameron-Smith, SD Poppitt - Longevity & healthspan, 2014 - Springer
Worldwide estimates predict 2 billion people will be aged over 65 years by 2050. A major
current challenge is maintaining mobility and quality of life into old age. Impaired mobility is …

Echo intensity as an indicator of skeletal muscle quality: applications, methodology, and future directions

MS Stock, BJ Thompson - European journal of applied physiology, 2021 - Springer
Purpose This narrative review provides an overview of the current knowledge of B-mode
ultrasound-derived echo intensity (EI) as an indicator of skeletal muscle quality. Method …

Application of ultrasound for muscle assessment in sarcopenia: towards standardized measurements

S Perkisas, S Baudry, J Bauer, D Beckwée… - European geriatric …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose Measurement of muscle mass is paramount in the screening and diagnosis of
sarcopenia. Besides muscle quantity however, also quality assessment is important …

Multicomponent exercise and the hallmarks of frailty: Considerations on cognitive impairment and acute hospitalization

EL Cadore, MLS de Asteasu, M Izquierdo - Experimental gerontology, 2019 - Elsevier
Frailty syndrome encompasses several physical hallmarks such as loss of muscle strength,
power output and mass, which leads to poor gait ability, fatigue, falls and overall difficulty to …

Intramuscular adipose tissue determined by T1-weighted MRI at 3 T primarily reflects extramyocellular lipids

H Akima, M Hioki, A Yoshiko, T Koike… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess relationships between intramuscular
adipose tissue (IntraMAT) content determined by MRI and intramyocellular lipids (IMCL) and …

Diagnostic ultrasound estimates of muscle mass and muscle quality discriminate between women with and without sarcopenia

C Ismail, J Zabal, HJ Hernandez, P Woletz… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Age-related changes in muscle mass and muscle tissue composition contribute
to diminished strength in older adults. The objectives of this study are to examine if an …

Muscle power training: a hallmark for muscle function retaining in frail clinical setting

EL Cadore, M Izquierdo - Journal of the American Medical Directors …, 2018 - jamda.com
Functional ability, and retaining autonomy and independence, as people age is the
cornerstone of healthy aging, a term established by World Health Organization in its first …

Relationship between quadriceps echo intensity and functional and morphological characteristics in older men and women

H Akima, A Yoshiko, A Tomita, R Ando, A Saito… - Archives of gerontology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The age-related decrease in human skeletal muscle mass; ie sarcopenia, has received
much attention, but an age-related increase in the ratio of adipose tissue to muscle tissue …

Assessing sarcopenia with vastus lateralis muscle ultrasound: an operative protocol

A Ticinesi, MV Narici, F Lauretani, A Nouvenne… - Aging Clinical and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Muscle ultrasound (MUS) has so far not been implemented for sarcopenia
assessment in clinical geriatric practice due to allegedly low reproducibility of results in the …