Sonographic Evaluation of Some Abdominal Organs in Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Sudan
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 10
Abstract
Assessment of abdominal organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys by ultrasound among SCD patients. A total of 96 SCD patients confirmed to have homozygous hemoglobin were purposively selected from the Sudan sickle cell clinic using a real-time ultrasound machine MINDRAY; DP-6600 and curvilinear probe with frequencies ranging from 1–5 MHz was used to evaluate the abdominal organs. In this study has revealed a varied remarkable changes in these organ size, In liver length the most patients was with the length 12-14 cm, spleen length most patients with length 4 cm and for right and left kidney 7-9 cm for both kidneys. The statistical shows that the mean ± STD of age was 8.40±3.93 years, and for weight, liver length, spleen length, right kidney length and left kidney length was 20.35±3.37 kg, 12.42 ±1.51cm, 5.67 ±2.29 cm, 8.13 ±1.23 cm and 8.45 ±1.22cm respectively. Correlate between liver length per cm with age per years were the rate of change for liver length increase with rate 0.2916 for each year. Correlate between spleen length per cm with age per years were the rate of change for spleen length decrease with rate 0.1156 for each year. Correlate between right kidney length per cm with age per years were the rate of change for right kidney length increase with rate 0.216 for each year. Correlate between left kidney length per cm with age per years were the rate of change for left kidney length increase with rate 0.1963 for each year. Abdominal sonography is an easy, affordable, readily available, accurate, and non-invasive diagnostic tool for early detection of organ changes for further management and follow-up of SCD patients.
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Zohida A. Abdelgabar, Mona Mohammed, Abbas K. A. Ibrahim, Mohamed E. M. Garelnabi
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