Reliability and validity of the ultrasound technique to measure the rectus femoris muscle diameter in older CAD-patients
Open Access
- 2 April 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Imaging
- Vol. 12 (1), 7
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-12-7
Abstract
The increasing age of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and the occurrence of sarcopenia in the elderly population accompanied by 'fear of moving' and hospitalization in these patients often results in a substantial loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength. Cardiac rehabilitation can improve exercise tolerance and muscle strength in CAD patients but less data describe eventual morphological muscular changes possibly by more difficult access to imaging techniques. Therefore the aim of this study is to assess and quantify the reliability and validity of an easy applicable method, the ultrasound (US) technique, to measure the diameter of rectus femoris muscle in comparison to the muscle dimensions measured with CT scans.Keywords
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