Abstract:
This study was conducted to find out the mean portal vein diameter in Sudanese population.
Abdominal ultrasound was performed for 100 Sudanese patients in Khartoum state aged between 18-65 yrs. The age grouped to six groups as flow ([18-25], [26-33], [34-41], [42-49], [50-57] and [58-60]) female 53 and male 47, with commercially available real time ultrasound machine using a 3.5 MHz transducer.
The result after data analysis was found: [in 23 patient aged (18-25) yr, 9 patient aged (26-33) yr, 17 patient aged (34-41) yr, 20 patient aged (42-49) yr, 17 patient aged (50-57) yr and 14 patient aged (58-65) yr] the mean diameter of main portal vein was ([8.47 ± 0.68] mm, [9.53 ± 0.73] mm, [10.51 ± 1.06] mm, [10.67 ± 0.80] mm, [11.57 ± 0.87] mm and[13.14 ± 0.40] mm) respectively.
The overall mean diameter of main portal vein in 100 pt was [10.53 ± 1.68] mm. with minimum diameter [7.20 mm] and maximum diameter [13.70 mm].
The mean portal vein diameter for male [10.99 ± 1.67] mm and mean diameter for female [10.13 ± 1.60] mm.
There is a strong correlation between main portal vein diameter and age, as age increase the portal vein diameter increase. (R2= 0.76)
