Hepatolenticular Degeneration

Study results from N. Arat and colleagues broaden understanding of hepatolenticular degeneration

Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, April 22nd, 2008

In this recently published study, investigators in Ankara, Turkey conducted a study "To investigate the P wave dispersion as a non-invasive marker of intra-atrial conduction disturbances in patients with Wilson's disease. We compared Wilson's disease patients (n = 18) with age matched healthy subjects (n = 15) as controls."

"The diagnosis was based on clinical symptoms, laboratory tests (ceruloplasmin, urinary and hepatic copper concentrations). P wave dispersion, a measurement of the heterogeneity of atrial depolarization, was measured as the difference between the duration of the longest and the shortest P-waves in 12 lead electrocardiography. All the patients were...

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Source: Medical Imaging Law Weekly (2008-04-22)

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