Single fiber electromyography in chronic renal failure.
Nineteen patients with chronic renal failure receiving intermittent hemodialysis had single fiber electromyography studies of their extensor digitorum communis muscles. Jitter values were abnormal, more so in men than in women. The jitter abnormalities tended to improve after intermittent hemodialysis treatments lasting longer than 1 year.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009132:Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D014511:Uremia / Q000503:physiopathology