Assessment of Cardiac Thoracic Ratio For Hypertensive Patients By Using Computed Tomography

Abstract

The CT scan is one of the methods to assess the heart enlargement in the hypertensive patients, the objective of this study was to the assessthe relationship between high blood pressure and cardiothoracic ratio of the Heart. The study took place during the period from June to December 2014 at Radiology department ofAlamal Medical Centre and Doctor Clinical Hospital. Cardiac thoracic ratio were taken in Patients who were diagnosed as hypertension Patient, Both gender were included 17 female and 23 were male with mean of age were (54-80). The CTR was measured in axial CT chest at the level of T5, CTR values for both control and hypertensive were calculated. The mean range of CTR for hypertensive patient were between (0.8-1) where the control were found to be between (0.5-0.6) The relation between the control and hypertensive were found to significant at level p value 0.051. There is significant relation between CTR hypertensive and high blood pressure value p=<0.05. The results showed that a significant relationship between the cardiac thoracic ratio value with age, weight, medication duration of hypertensive patients.