STUDY OF THE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND PULMONARY VESSELS MEASUREMENTS USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

The purpose of the study was to study the pulmonary vessels in patients withpulmonary hypertension using Computed Tomography scan (CT) This is aprospective ,analytical study. this study was conducted at Khartoum Hospital(Sudan); in the period between November 2020 - January 2021 a sampleof (100) patients with clinically diagnosed as pulmonary hypertension wasenrolled, their mean ages were (47.9219.03) years, the sample includedboth genders, (42) patients were females while (58) were males and theirages were ranged from (3 - 80) years old. (CTPA) scans were acquired, allpatients were examined by using multislice (CT) scanner, the data collectedby special designed sheet from βindings and analyzed statistically by usingan (SPSS) Statistics software package. The sample was directed to studythe relationship of pulmonary hypertension with the presence of pulmonaryvessels measurements; the patient's age and gender correlation with thepulmonary hypertension were investigated. The results βind that the right andleft main pulmonary arteries diameters changes were found to be signiβicantlyrelated to the presence of pulmonary hypertension, while there was no sig-niβicant difference in the main pulmonary artery diameters measurements.The study concluded that CT for pulmonary artery plays an important role inthe diagnostic evaluation of patients with pulmonary hypertension this due toit is easily accessible and excellent non-invasive method for the visualizationand measurement of pulmonary artery and to know the possible cause ofpulmonary hypertension.