Characterization of Pancreatic Changes in Sudanese diabetic Patients Using Ultrasonography

Abstract

Abdominal ultrasound is a method for evaluating internal structures of abdomen, and one of them measure the pancreatic size generally and in diabetic patient specially. Our purpose in this study was to evaluate the change in pancreatic size and the effect of age and duration of diabetic on diabetic patient using ultrasound compare with healthy patient (control group). The study was conducted at Noreen diabetic center(Khartoum-Sudan) during the period from June up to September 2015.Seventy consecutive subjects were selected in both gender and with different ages, 50diabeticpatients and some healthy people (control group). All subjects were scanned for Abdominal Ultrasound (Mindary DP 2200),curvilinear transducer(3.5Mhz) in Transvers section. Images were obtained at areas including Head, body and tail of pancreas. And measured the pancreatic size and studded the relationship between it and type of patient, age of patient and duration of diabetic. Results showed that there is significant invert relationship between the Diabetic and size of pancreas , significant invert relationship between the duration and age of diabetic patient and pancreatic size, compare with control group. The results showed that there has been a significant correlation between the Diabetic and decrease in pancreatic. The result showed there no effect of patient gender on the pancreatic size for diabetic patient or healthy control group. The abdominal Ultrasound is the one of best modalities to evaluate the pancreatic size and pancreatic disease