Evaluation of Renal Volume in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Using Ultrasonography

Abstract

This cross-sectional study was done in Khartoum State (Omdurman Military Hospital) during the period extended from October 2018 to October 2019 for 50 diabetic patients (26 were males and 24 were females), 5 of them are type1 diabetes mellitus, 45 are type2, their ages ranged between 10-90 years old and there were 25 apparently healthy subjects as control group were assessed. Diabetes affected many organs; no recent study was done regarding the effect of diabetes on the kidneys. The aim of this study was to evaluate the renal volume in diabetic patients using ultrasound scan. All patients had been scanned with Mindary DC40 ultrasound machine and Siemens sonoline G50 with curivilinear probe had a frequency from 3-3.5MHZ for measuring renal dimension (length, width and AP diameter), renal volume was calculated using this formula: V=0.49×L×W×AP A data collection sheet was designed to include general information of patient (age, gender, type of diabetes and duration of disease) and dimension of the kidneys. SPSS was used to analysed the collected data The study showed that there was significant difference between the kidneys volume of diabetic group and non-diabetic group (P value=0.006, 0.004), also there was strong correlation between age and the volume of the kidneys (p value =0.000,0.000) for the right and left kidney in respectively, there was no significant difference in the renal volume between males and females (p value=0.576,0.935) for right and left kidney respectively. Thus showed the importance of US as useful tool to measure renal volume and detecting changes in diabetic patient. Additional studies with large sample size are recommended to improve statistical information and compare the result