NORMAL SIZE AND VALUES IN ADULT POPULATION IN THE WESTERN REGION OF SAUDI ARABIA: KIDNEYS

Mohammad A. Wazzan; Ahmed Abdul-Jabbar; Nada Adel Sagr; Aaminah Kobeisy

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

NORMAL SIZE AND VALUES IN ADULT POPULATION IN THE WESTERN REGION OF SAUDI ARABIA: KIDNEYS

Mohammad A. Wazzan, Ahmed Abdul Jabbar, Nada Adel Sagr, Aaminah Kobeisy

Abstract :

The kidneys are of the most vital organs in the human body. They receive about 25% of cardiac output and continuously filter the blood of wastes and toxic compounds. They are essential for maintaining electrolytes in equiliium and keeping fluid levels. The size of kidneys plays an important role in the clinical evaluation of those with disease processes. Different pathologies can interfere with kidney sizes such as hereditary polycystic kidney disease, vascular diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, infectious diseases, and urinary tract obstruction. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to have a range of normal kidney sizes in healthy individuals in a given population for diagnostic and prognostic measures. This study aims to assess the normal range values of kidney size in the population of Jeddah, western area, Saudi Arabia