Abstract:
The portal vein (PV) and hepatic artery forms the liver’s dual blood supply.
Sonography is a valuable tool in the assessment of porto-systemic pathologies.
This study aimed at determining the mean portal vein diameter based on age,
gender and weight. This was a cross-sectional prospective study carried out among
apparently healthy adult subjects in Khartoum Hospitals; the data were collected
from Khartoum stated hospitals in period from December, 2018 to April, 2019.
The result showed no significant difference of PV wit gender at p=0.772 and the
mean value was 1.175 ± 0.1559cm. The mean age founded was (43.4±18.7) while
the most affected study groups was three groups having the same frequency which
are (21.5-32.8, 32.9-44.2, 44.3-55.6) having 21% form study population for each
groups. Also female was most affected by this type of measurement having more
than 57% from the data.This study found the mean values of PV diameter in
apparently healthy adults in our environment to be 0.155 ±0.157mm and that PV
diameter positively correlates with anthropometric variables.
