Ultrasound assessment of spleen size in collegiate athletes

Abstract

There is a wide range of normal spleen size among collegiate athletes. Average spleen size was larger in men and white athletes than in women and black athletes. A single ultrasound examination for determination of splenomegaly is of limited value in this population.

Sonographic Determination of Normal Spleen Size in Turkish Adults

“…During the growth duration from infancy to adolescence, development of visseral organs like spleen demonstrated correlation with increases in height, weight and body surface area. Additionally, it was estimated that splenic length measured by ultrasonography provided an objective and safe method to evaluate spleen size (Hosey et al;Megremis et al;Konus et al, 1998).…”

“…Additionally, US measurement of splenic size is standard application and it provides a objective way ofnoninvasive examination of the spleen. It is especially useful because of lack of radiation exposure (Ehimwenma & Tagbo;Lamp et al;Hosey et al;Mustapha et al;Megremis et al, 2004;Mittal & Chowdhary, 2010). Thus, it is safe, quick and accurate method for measurement of splenic dimensions (Picardi et al;Dhingra et al, 2010;Megremis et al;Mittal & Chowdhary).…”

“…Furthermore, splenic enlargement may be result of especially viral illnesses and is an crucial criterion in diagnosing primary myeloproliferative diseases (Picardi et al, 2002;Spielmann et al, 2005). However, evaluation of splenic size by palpation can cause unreliable and wrong conclusions because spleen is not palpable untill it is enlarged 2 to 3 times its size (De Odorico et al;Hosey et al;Dhingra et al, 2010). The knowledge of spleen size, shape or external features might be of importance to surgeons and radiologists (Nayak et al).…”

“…The shape of the spleen is tetrahedral or wedge (Ehimwenma & Tagbo;Nayak et al, 2011). Moreover, the spleen size shows variations according to people, depending on the individual's height, age and sex (Danila;Hosey et al, 2006). Splenomegaly is an indicator of varieties of inflammatory, infectious, infiltrative, metabolic, neoplastic, hematopoietic diseases and the other diseases like portal hypertension, glycogen storage disorder, leukemia, lymphoma, melanoma, celiac disease (De Odorico et al, 1999;Mustapha et al, 2010;Asghar et al, 2011a).…”

Serum type IV collagen level is predictive for esophageal varices in patients with severe alcoholic disease

“…The spleen was visualized with the patient in the right lateral decubitus position. Measurements were then taken in the sagittal (S) and transverse (T) planes, with the maximum dimension being recorded in each plane [9] . Splenomegaly was defined as a spleen index (S × T × 0.9) > 30.…”