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<bold>Objective:</bold> To determine the correlation between portal vein diameter and spleen size (craniocaudal). <bold>Methodology:</bold> The study was conducted at the University Ultrasound Clinic, The University of Lahore, Lahore Pakistan from 1st January to 1st July 2013. All the individuals who referred for abdominal sonographic examination, including male, female, older and younger were conveniently included in the study, voluntarily, irrespective of the disease state. Ultrasonographic measurements of the caudocranial length of the spleen and portal vein were carried out on all of the one thousand subjects. The subject position for spleen was supine or right posterior oblique during suspended inspiration and right anterior oblique position for portal vein diameter with quiet respiration. The correlation between the splenic length and portal vein diameter was evaluated. <bold>Result:</bold> A total of 1000 subjects; 36.9% females and 63.1% males aged from 4 to 79 years. The mean splenic length was 10.29 ± 1.89 cm. The mean portal vein diameter was 10.27 ± 1.78 mm. A statistically significant correlation was found between the spleen size and portal vein diameter; the Pearson correlation was significant at the 0.01 level. <bold>Conclusion:</bold> Portal vein diameter is directly correlated to splenic caudocranial length. A regression formula was developed to measure the splenic length from the calculation of portal vein diameter.
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Objective: To determine the correlation between portal vein diameter and spleen size (craniocaudal). Methodology: The study was conducted at the University Ultrasound Clinic, The University of Lahore, Lahore Pakistan from 1st January to 1st July 2013. All the individuals who referred for abdominal sonographic examination, including male, female, older and younger were conveniently included in the study, voluntarily, irrespective of the disease state. Ultrasonographic measurements of the caudocranial length of the spleen and portal vein were carried out on all of the one thousand subjects. The subject position for spleen was supine or right posterior oblique during suspended inspiration and right anterior oblique position for portal vein diameter with quiet respiration. The correlation between the splenic length and portal vein diameter was evaluated. Result: A total of 1000 subjects; 36.9% females and 63.1% males aged from 4 to 79 years. The mean splenic length was 10.29 ± 1.89 cm. The mean portal vein diameter was 10.27 ± 1.78 mm. A statistically significant correlation was found between the spleen size and portal vein diameter; the Pearson correlation was significant at the 0.01 level. Conclusion: Portal vein diameter is directly correlated to splenic caudocranial length. A regression formula was developed to measure the splenic length from the calculation of portal vein diameter.

Correlation between portal vein diameter and craniocaudal length of the spleen

Journal of Ultrasonography

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Objective: To determine the correlation between portal vein diameter and spleen size (craniocaudal). Methodology: The study was conducted at the University...

Variables	Correlation	Spleen in cm	Portal vein in mm
Spleen size in cm	Pearson correlation	1	0.990**
	Sig. (2-tailed)		0.000
	Number of subjects	8	8

Variable	N	Range	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation	Standard error
Age in years	1000	75.00	4.00	79.00	32.5600	16.80	1.680
Spleen size (cm)	1000	10.16	6.84	17.00	10.2918	1.8908	0.18
Portal vein (mm)	1000	9.20	6.80	16.00	10.2759	1.7875	0.17

Model	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	t	Sig
Model	B	Std. Error	Beta
1	(Constant)	0.737	0.197	3.742	0.000
Spleen	0.927	0.19	0.980	49.199	0.000

Correlation between portal vein diameter and craniocaudal length of the spleen

Article Category: research-article

Publicado en línea: 31 dic 2019

Páginas: 276 - 281

Recibido: 22 sept 2019

Aceptado: 10 nov 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15557/jou.2019.0041

Palabras clave
spleen, portal vein, portal hypertension, chronic liver parenchymal disease, splenomegaly

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Fig. 5.

Correlations between spleen size and portal vein diameter

Age, Spleen caudocranial length, and portal vein diameter

Coefficients for the regression model of splenic size and portal vein diameter

Correlation between portal vein diameter and craniocaudal length of the spleen

Article Category: research-article

Publicado en línea: 31 dic 2019

Páginas: 276 - 281

Recibido: 22 sept 2019

Aceptado: 10 nov 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15557/jou.2019.0041

Palabras clavespleen, portal vein, portal hypertension, chronic liver parenchymal disease, splenomegaly

© 2019 Shah Zaman et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fig. 1.

Fig. 2.

Fig. 3.

Fig. 4.

Fig. 5.

Correlations between spleen size and portal vein diameter

Age, Spleen caudocranial length, and portal vein diameter

Coefficients for the regression model of splenic size and portal vein diameter

Palabras clave
spleen, portal vein, portal hypertension, chronic liver parenchymal disease, splenomegaly