Correlation of Internal Organ Weights with Body Weight and Body Height in Normal Adult Zambians: A Case Study of Ndola Teaching Hospital

Abstract

The objective of the research was to study the correlation of internal organ weights with body weight and length in normal adult Zambians. The study involved 114 (83 males and 31 females) forensic autopsies from Ndola Teaching Hospital done over a period of 12 months. The cases included autopsies of unnatural deaths including road traffic accidents and homicide. Cases where information about age and origin of the person was not available were left out of the study. The age of the decedents ranged from 16 to 85 years. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient to determine correlation. P values less than 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant. It was observed that the heart, liver, left kidney, right kidney, brain, and left lung were positively correlated to body weight, while only the brain and the left lung were positively correlated to the height in the male population. In the female population, the heart, liver, right kidney, brain, and right lung were positively correlated to the weight of the body, while only the right kidney was positively correlated to the height of the body.

Morphometric Assessment of Spleen Dimensions and Its Correlates Among Individual Living in Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia

“…The sonography assessment of spleen dimensions provides essential inputs for clinicians in daily clinical practice for proper diagnosis of splenomegaly (32,44,(53)(54)(55). The result of this study gives reference values which helps radiologist for appropriate diagnosis of diseases associated to splenomegaly and splenic atrophy, for the surgeons to appropriately design surgical cases associated to spleen, for hematologist and immunologist for proper diagnosis of various gastrointestinal and hematological diseases and forensic studies (56)(57)(58)(59).…”

Morphometric analysis of alpha-1, 3-galactosyltransferase knockout pig kidney and heart

“…The weight of the GTKO pig heart at the seventh month was found to be 197 AE 1.8 g, which can provide adequate cardiac output, 10 as it is comparable adult to the weight of a human heart (279 AE 44.9 g). 11 The GTKO pig kidney at the first, third and seventh month weighed 33.3 AE 7.6, 33.8 AE 6.9 and 80.3 AE 22.7 g, respectively ( Table 1). The GTKO pig kidney showed an average growth rate of $2.8 g/kg body weight, which is similar to QPF pig kidney ($2.5 g/kg body weight), 9 suggesting that body weight can be a reliable parameter to estimate donor renal graft weight.…”

“…At the seventh month, the GTKO pig left kidney weight is about 80.3 AE 11.3 g, which is around 70% of that of an adult human male ($117 AE 27.4 g). 11 Hence, the pig heart at the seventh month might be adequate to provide optimum functionality and graft survival in adult humans. 12 The morphometric parameters such as width, length and thickness of the heart and kidney gradually increased from the first month to the seventh month ( Table 1).…”

“…The weight of the GTKO pig heart at the seventh month was found to be 197 ± 1.8 g, which can provide adequate cardiac output, 10 as it is comparable adult to the weight of a human heart (279 ± 44.9 g). 11…”

Acute dysfunctional status of hepatorenal tissues of rats administered with leaf extracts of Ocimum gratissimum L. (Lamiaceae)

“…Alteration in visceral organ weight, which precedes morphological changes, is a sensitive indicator of systemic toxicity 33,51 . The alteration of visceral organ weight, which is indicative of pathology or compensatory changes in response to stress to the organ, is often reported in relation to the body weight of the experimental animals in toxicological studies 43,[51][52][53] . Notable factors that influence adverse change in visceral organ weight are strain, age and sex of the animal, as well as environmental and experimental conditions 51,54 .…”