Doppler Assessment of Main Portal Vein Among Apparently Normal Population in District Multan

Abstract: Portal Vein (PV) is a type of blood vessel that takes blood from gestational tract, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen to the liver. The liver receives its blood through PV. Portal vein ascends obliquely to the right in permitted margin of small omentum, originating behind the back of Pancreas. Objective: To access the main Portal Vein by Doppler ultrasound among appar ently normal population in district Multan. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Tariq Ultrasound Center Multan. Samples were chosen by convenient sampling technique. Total 384 healthy individuals aged between 20-50 were included in current study. Patients with known history of diseases were excluded from the study. GE S6 Japan, with convex probe was used for ultrasound scanning and measurements. The Doppler study was performed by using duplex and triplex features. A semi-structure questionnaire was used for data collection. SPSS Version 21 was used for data analysis. The mean ± S.D was calculated for quantitative data and percentage was calculated for qualitative data. Results: The average age of participant's was 35.08+8.935 years. The mean PV Diameter of patients were 12.73+8.935 mm. The mean PSV of PV Diameter of patients was 30.04+5.190 mm. The mean PV Diameter (mm) of females was 11+0.2 and males were 13+1.2. There was no gender wise association between mean diameter of portal vein assessed, as p-value is greater than 0.05. Conclusions: It was concluded from the current study that themean portal vein diameter was very important in human system. This study has established baseline values for normal range of portal vein diameter in apparently healthy adults in a Multan population to be 12.38+1.371 mm. Keywords: Portal Vein, Velocity of PV, Normal Population, Ultrasound, PV thickness