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P-wave dispersion: What we know till now?
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- Association between plasma homocysteine levels and P-wave dispersion in pediatric patients with hyperhomocysteinemia.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Association Between Familial Mediterranean Fever and P-Wave Dispersion Under Colchicine Treatment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Morphology-based ECG criteria for identifying left-atrial low-voltage areas on voltage mapping: a diagnostic accuracy study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of Thyroid Hormone Imbalance on Electrocardiographic Parameters: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Arrhythmias During Hospitalizations for Exacerbation of COPD.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2024Observational
- Assessment of P Wave Indices in Healthy Standardbred Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
P-wave dispersion is defined as the difference between the maximum and the minimum P-wave duration recorded from multiple different-surface ECG leads. It has been known that increased P-wave duration and P-wave dispersion reflect prolongation of intraatrial and interatrial conduction time and the inhomogeneous propagation of sinus impulses, which are well-known electrophysiologic characteristics in patients with atrial arrhythmias and especially paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Extensive clinical evaluation of P-wave dispersion has been performed in the assessment of the risk for atrial fibrillation in patients without apparent heart disease, in hypertensives, in patients with coronary artery disease, in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery, in patients with congenital heart diseases, as well as in other groups of patients suffering from various cardiac or non-cardiac diseases. In this paper, we aimed to summarize the measurement methods, current use in different clinical situations, strengths and limitations of the of P-wave dispersion.
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