Evaluation of Diabetic nephropathy Using Ultrasound

Abstract

Advances in medical diagnostic technology induced accurate diagnostic values for most of diseases especially abdominal ones. The purpose of the study is to high light the role of ultrasound in evaluation of early diabetic nephropthy, in fact diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, science diabetic nephropthy begins silence before patients have symptoms, and so early discovery may slow down kidney damage. In this study normal ultrasound procedure was performed for all patients, the size of kidneys was measured., the echogencity of right kidney was compared with the liver echogencity , while the echogencity of the left kidney was compared with spleen echogencity in both male and female. The study was done for 100 diabetc patients (male and female) all of them have dibetic type 1 or type 2 for more than five years. Their age ranging (40-70 years). The control groups were 50 healthy people with similar age ranging (40-70years). Patients with renal congenital anomalies , urinary tract obstruction, hydronephrosis, malignant tumor, renal failure and HIV were excluded The main findings of this study, is that diabetic nephropathy induced by type 1 diabetes mellitus has high frequency in female than male. Diabetic nephropathy change induced by type 2 diabetes mellitus has high frequency in patients with poor blood sugar level control. This result is similar like others study findings.