Characterization of the diabetic kidneys by ultrasound

Abstract

In fact diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure. The purpose of study is characterization of diabetic patient kidney by using ultrasound. The study were done for 50 diabetic patient (30male and20 female) all of them have diabetes mellitus (18 type I and 32 type II) for more than three years their ages over 20years were included, and the patient with renal congenital anomalies ,renal tract obstruction, malignant tumor and renal failure wear excluded . In this study ultrasound was perform for all patient by measured the size of kidneys and evaluated the echogencity of right kidney compared with the liver echogencity ,while the echogencity of the left kidney was compared with spleen echogencity and the corticomiddlry ratio was measured also .the ultrasound scan done by using TA carve liner prop 3.5MHz. the value of the study characterized their is decrease in kidney volume combering with normal range and increase in C/M ratio and no significant different in the echogencity