Muscle Weakness

Healio has compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in July.

Fifteen months following COVID-19 hospitalization, both ventilated and nonventilated patients displayed diaphragm muscle weakness, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Patients with neuromuscular diseases face an increased risk for respiratory muscle weakness, which can contribute to various health and mental problems that take a significant toll on their lives.

NEW ORLEANS — Reduced left ventricular ejection fraction may be tied to adverse changes in muscle quality among patients with breast cancer or lymphoma undergoing cancer treatment with anthracyclines, a speaker reported.

Canagliflozin, an SGLT2 inhibitor, may lead to rosuvastatin toxicity when they are prescribed together, according to a case report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

NEW YORK — It is important that pediatricians are able to identify presenting clinical features of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, said Kevin Messacar, MD, pediatric infectious disease physician and researcher at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado.