Keywords
diabetes mellitus type II (DM II); nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD; , ultrasound; liver; right liver lobe (RLL)
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus type II (DM II) or adult onset diabetes is due to the inefficient use of insulin, which affects various organs and tissues. Patients with DM II are at risk of suffering non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that can later develop into more life threating forms such as hepatomegaly, cirrhosis or liver cancer. Following the logic of the non-inferiority trial test, we aim to establish a more accurate anatomical measure of the right liver lobe (RLL) to facilitate close monitoring of liver size with ultrasound (US). We hypothesize that US is not unacceptably worse than computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to accurately and reliably measure the size of the RLL when the measure is taken in the midaxillary line and craniocaudal plane (MAL-CC). Therefore, the objective of this study is to conduct a non-inferiority trial to test our novel MAL-CC measure.
To meet this aim, US measure of the RLL was taken from DM II (n=7) and non-DM II (n=5) patients, whom were recruited from 2 endocrinology clinics at SoM-UPR. Preliminary data shows that MAL-CC measure of the RLL from non-DM II patients is 13.99 + 2.53 cm whereas the same measurement among DM II patients is 15.25 + 3.25 cm (Mann-Whitney U test, p= 0.42). It is concluded that there is a non-significant trend for large RLL sizes among DM II patients. Future work aims to increase sample size and to validate our novel measurement with MRI.
Recommended Citation
Ayala Santos, Carlos I.; Jorge, PhD, Juan Carlos; and Riestra-Candelaria, PhDc, Bárbara L.
(2018)
"A Novel Ultrasound-based Measure of the Liver among Diabetes Mellitus Type II Patients,"
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 12:
Iss.
4, Article 42.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol12/iss4/42