Abstract:
This is a prospective study deals with study of patient's abdomen with sickle cell anemia
Using ultrasound to detect the complication on the abdominal organs and to identify the
correlation between the duration of the disease and its complications.
The area of the study was in Mohammed ELAmeen Hamid hospital in Omdurman. In this
study 35 patient were investigated as a sample volume and 10 children were considered as a
control group.
By the end of this study the researcher found that the SCD prevalence in Sudan specially
western tribes between male and female, this hereditary disease affected whole the body like
abdominal strong organs specially the spleen which is affected by the age (duration of
disease) firstly become enlarged and after that start to shrink and in some cases disappear
(Autosplenectomy), about 31.4% of patient, 2.85% affected kidneys, 5.7% gall stones and
2.85% have jaundice. Lastly we found that the ultrasound exam is first choice to detect and
follow the complication of SCD on abdominal organs