Characterization of Tuberculosis Patients Abdomen by Using Ultrasound

Abstract

This study is about the abdominal organs states in T.B patients when using ultrasound as a modality of diagnosis. This study was conducted to find the impact and complications of tuberculosis on the patient abdominal organs. The study was done in Omdurman Teaching Hospital for Chest and Medicine (ABO ANGA) in the period from 30 April 2014 to 14 July 2014 using (FUKUDA Denshi SF sonic 4200 R) ultrasound machine with 3.5 MHz convex transducer. The result of this study showed that 4% of the patients had splenomegaly, 16% had hepatomegaly and 4% had pleural effusion. But there is no changes in the echotexure of the abdominal organs from normal also there is no ascites or enlargement of para-aortic lymph nodes. The sizes of these organs (liver, spleen and kidney) decreased by a coefficient equal to 0.01cm/month for the liver and by 0.004 cm/month for .the spleen and the kidney in respect to tuberculosis duration