Ultrasound in the Incidence of Urinary Bladder Diseases, Khartoum Teaching Hospital - Sudan

Urinary bladder diseases are a group of medical conditions that affect the bladder, an organ that stores urine. Bladder diseases can be short-term, chronic or fatal and affect people of all ages. This study was designed with the aim to find the incidence of common diseases that can affect the urinary bladder in Sudanese patients at Khartoum Teaching Hospital. In addition, create a local standard about the incidence of urinary bladder diseases, so it can be used either in the local or regional medical studies in the future, due to paucity of information in this critical area. This prospective study was conducted at Khartoum Teaching Hospital in Khartoum StateSudan. It spanned a period of 3 years from April 2009 to April 2012, involving 250 Sudanese patients complain of urinary bladder symptoms (113; 45.2% males and 137; 54.8% females) and aged 1 to 60 years; mean age of 40 ± 1.6 years. Sonography was performed using General Electric (GE) medical system, logic-five expert fitted with 3.5 MHz convex transducer. Ultrasound findings in urinary bladder among symptomatic cases were varied and included such abnormalities; Cystitis (acute; chronic) was found in (47.6%) of cases, vesicles stones (14.4%), urine retention (12.8%), Schistosoma haematobium (8%), urinary bladder neoplasms (7.2%), urinary bladder tuberculosis (5.2%), urinary bladder diverticulum (1.6%), Neurogenic bladder (1.2%), posterior urethral valve (0.8%), urinary bladder clot (0.8%) and Urachal anomalies seen in (0.4%) in the detected cases. Urinary bladder cystitis (acute; chronic) is the commonest pathology detected in the scanned samples and the incidence of urinary bladder pathologies found to be common in pregnant housewives.