ASSESSMENT OF RENAL CHANGE IN DIABETIC PATIENTS BY USING COMUTED TOMOGRAPH

Abstract

Advance in medical diagnostic technology induced accurate diagnostic for most of disease especially abdominal ones, the main objective of the study was to assess renal change in diabetic patient using CT, in fact diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, diabetic nephropathy begins silence before patient having symptoms and early discovery of it may slow down kidney damage. This study were done for 100 diabetic patient (68 male and 32female) all of them have diabetes mellitus type1 and type2 for more than many years, their age range from 30-90 year. Patient with renal congenital anomalies, urinary tract obstruction, hydronephrorsis, malignant tumor and renal failure were excluded. From the result showed more frequent ages affected by diabetic nephropathy between (46-60) by 32%, because physical characteristic of male are more affected than female by 68% to 32% respectively, according to diabetic type patient with type 2 more affected by disease than patient with type1 by 58% to 42%, according to kidney size result show decrease in kidney size in comparison with normal range.