Alcoholic liver disease electrocardiogram

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: M. Khurram Afzal, MD [2]

Overview

An ECG may be helpful in the diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Findings on an ECG suggestive of cirrhosis include prolonged QTc interval.

Electrocardiogram

An ECG may be helpful in the diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Findings on an ECG suggestive of cirrhosis include:^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
- Prolonged QTc interval
- This could correlate with increased left ventricular end diastolic dimension (LVEDD) on echocardiography, indicating the severity of the volume overload in cirrhotic patients.

References

↑ Moaref A, Zamirian M, Yazdani M, Salehi O, Sayadi M, Aghasadeghi K (2014). “The Correlation between Echocardiographic Findings and QT Interval in Cirrhotic Patients”. Int Cardiovasc Res J. 8 (2): 39–43. PMC 4058482. PMID 24936479.
↑ Wehr M, Hess J, Noll B, Bode JC (1990). “[Cardiac findings in alcoholic liver disease]”. Med. Klin. (Munich) (in German). 85 (11): 629–36, 681. PMID 2266911.
↑ Braverman AC, Steiner MA, Picus D, White H (1995). “High-output congestive heart failure following transjugular intrahepatic portal-systemic shunting”. Chest. 107 (5): 1467–9. PMID 7750353.
↑ Carey EJ, Douglas DD (2005). “Effects of orthotopic liver transplantation on the corrected QT interval in patients with end-stage liver disease”. Dig. Dis. Sci. 50 (2): 320–3. PMID 15745093.

Overview