Estimation of Spleen Volume in United Arab Emirate Population using Ultrasound

Abstract

Spleen ultrasound is one of the modality of choice to assess and evaluate the pathological condition of this organ and together with its measurement. This was an analytical study aimed to assess the spleen volume in western region of UAE using ultrasound measurement in order to provide the reference marker of its volume. A 50 patients (50 men; mean age, 35years [range, 20-57years]; mean body-surface area, 1.8 m2 [range 1.27-2.25m2]) who presented with normal spleen although may have any abnormality rather than the spleen itself, underwent abdominal US scan and the measurement was performed in both transvers and longitudinal section, using a high resolution General Electric US unit with 3-5 MHz curved array transducer.; this study was conducted in Madinat Zayed Hospital in period from august 2015- till January 2016, and patient demographic data was measured for all study population which include (Height, Weight, BAS, and BMI) having mean 169.5±7.6, 73.1±11.4, 1.8±0.196 and 25.39±3.036, respectively, the result showed that the mean ± SD of the spleen volume equal to 162.2±30.5. Directly proportional to the BSA, BMI, and patient weight.