Assessment Of Renal Change In Diabetic Patients 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 silencet before patient having symptoms and early

discovery of it may slow down kidney damage.

This study was done for 40 diabetic patient (34 male and 16female) 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.