Measurement of Normal Thoracic Aorta in Sudaneseusing Computed Tomography

Abstract

This was descriptive analytical study aimed to measurement the thoracic aorta diameter in Sudanese population by using CT scan conducted at radiology department emergency center Khartoum –department at Yastabshiroon hospital and Alraqi hospital during the period from august to December 2021, the sample of this study consisted of 50 subject with different gender 20 were female (40%) and 30 were male (60%), axial images will be obtained at the level of pulmonary artery bifurcation, ascending and descending thoracic aortic diameter measurements, analyzed using SPSS program version 16. The results found mean of ascending aorta was (2.98±0.436cm), mean of descending aorta was (2.4460±0.32545cm), no significant relationship between ascending aorta and age, weight, height, BMI (p-value = 0.5567 0.544, 0.965, 0.934) respectively, no significant relationship between descending aorta and weight, height, BMI (p-value = 0.863, 0.126, 0.211), significant relationship between descending aorta and age (p-value = 0.013), ascending in male bigger than descending aorta, for female ascending bigger than descending aorta, no significant different age group with ascending aorta (positive relation) (p-value=0.76), significant different age group with descending aorta (negative relation) (p-value=0.01) and week relation the study found that can predict measure of the ascending aorta and descending aorta if the age. The study concluded to there was significant relationship between descending aorta and age, significant different between age group with descending aorta.