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Will cortisteroids or other medications affect the results of a muscle biopsy?

April 26, 2017affect biopsy medications muscle results

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Will cortisteroids or other medications affect the results of a muscle biopsy?

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Chronic corticosteroid therapy will result in type 2 muscle fiber atrophy, which can be determined in the biopsy sections by fiber typing. Other pathological changes should not be affected.