Measurement of Portal Tract Blood Vessels Among Youth Sudanese Using Duplex Ultrasonography

Abstract

This is a cross sectional descriptive study carried out in Ribat teaching hospital Khartoum state - Sudan from June to August 2018 was done to investigate the utility of Doppler ultrasound in detecting the range of spectrum of the portal vein and hepatic artery of the healthy patient. A sample of 50 young patients of different gender and age group were selected, their age range (16-30 years) Male 24 (48%) Females 26 (52%). The resistive index (RI), velocity and diameter of portal vessels (portal vein, hepatic artery) of the patients were taken to get the range of these values in healthy young Sudanese peoples. Trans abdominal scanning was done for all cases using Toshiba with curvilinear probe of 2 to 3.5 Megahertz (MHz). Data collected using special data collection sheet designed to evaluate gender, age, weight, height and Portal vein. For analyzing of collected data study used Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Study resulted that mean of age for cases under study was 21.9 years with stander deviation ± 4.63years, while the mean of Resistive index (RI) of hepatic artery 0.62 with stander deviation 0.07, mean of Portal vein diameter (mm) 9.9 mm with stander deviation 2.08 mm, while mean portal vein velocity (cm/s) 15.1 (cm/s) with stander deviation 3.10 (cm/s). Study concluded that there was no difference significant correlation between portal vein diameter, velocity with age and gender of cases, while there was a difference significant correlation between hepatic artery resistive index (RI) with gender. The correlation coefficient between the resistive index, age , gender and velocity of portal vein and hepatic artery there was no relationship except of V portal vein diameter with gender (P-value <0.05) it was a proportional relationship. Study recommended that further studies should be done with increased number of sample and introduced other age group.