See Also: Canavan's disease(medicine)
Canavan disease(medicine)
Disease, Canavan(health)
Canavan disease(health)
Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease(medicine)
Hepatasol 8 per cent(health)
Canavan, Myrtelle(medicine)
Canavan's sclerosis(medicine)
Hegg Memorial Health Center Avera Health(health)
Divine Providence Health Center Avera Health(health)

Hepatasol 8 per cent (health) and Canavan's disease (medicine)


Hepatasol 8 per cent (health)


Hepatasol 8 per cent is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in Other countries. Active ingredient(s): amino acids.





Canavan's disease (medicine)


Canavan's disease
Autosomal recessive degenerative disease of infancy; mostly in Jewish infants; onset typically within first 3-4 months of birth, consisting of blindness, psychomotor regression, enlarged head, optic atrophy, hypotonia, spasticity, increased N-acetylaspartic acid urinary excretion. MRI shows enlarged brain, decreased attenuation of cerebral and cerebellar white matter, and normal ventricles. Pathologically, there is increased brain volume and weight, and spongy degeneration in the subcortical white matter.

See: leukodystrophy.

Synonym: Canavan's sclerosis, Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, spongy degeneration of infancy.