Measurement of the Main Pulmonary Artery Diameter in Sudanese Patients by using Computed Tomography

ABSTRACT

The study was done to measure the main pulmonary artery diameter by Computed Tomography in normal subjects which were not suffer from the cardiac or pulmonary pathology.

Fifty patients (20 males and 30 females) were selected with normal pulmonary artery pressure.

The study was done in Algazeira Traumatology center during the period from October 2015 to August 2016.

The widest diameter perpendicular to the long axis ofthe main pulmonary artery was measure with computer caliper at the level of the bifurcation of the it to the right and left pulmonary arteries