Brain magnetic resonance imaging and severity of neurological disease in Wilson's disease - the neuroradiological correlations.

Barbara Rędzia-OgrodnikAnna CzłonkowskaJan BembenekAgnieszka AntosIwona Kurkowska-JastrzębskaMarta SkowrońskaŁukasz SmolińskiTomasz Litwin

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)

Brain MRI changes may be present even in patients without neurological symptoms, although not frequently. The semiquantitative MRI scale correlated with the UWDRS and appears to be a complementary tool for severity of brain injury assessment in WD patients.

Keyphrases

magnetic resonance imaging
brain injury
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
cerebral ischemia
contrast enhanced
computed tomography
subarachnoid hemorrhage
prognostic factors
white matter
multiple sclerosis
diffusion weighted imaging
functional connectivity