QUANTITATIVE MORPHO-FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SIMMETRYASIMMETRY CONDITION OF HUMAN NORMAL KIDNEY

Abstract

PURPOSE: The aim of the present research was to perform quantitative morpho-functional analysis of the symmetry-asymmetry condition of human normal autopsy and “live” kidneys using the complex of morphological and ultra-sonographic methods. METHODS: Morphometric study of 10 autopsy kidneys of healthy men 36 - 60 years of age was conducted; retrospective analysis of data obtained by vital ultra-sonographic study of 65 kidneys of men without renal diseases at the same age period was performed as well. All kidneys were with a single renal artery. RESULTS: The kidney length and width are statistically significantly greater on right, than on left, but there were no statistically significant differences between right and left kidneys in thickness of the kidney and size of its parenchyma. Results of morphometric study of autopsy renal glomeruli, as well as multislice computed tomographic angiography and doppler investigation of renal artery in color duplex scan mode did not show any statistically significant differences on right and on left. CONCLUSIONS: For determining of the standard quantitative indicators of kidney it is necessary to take into account the age and gender of the studied people, as well as the effect of side.

Keywords

• human normal kidney
• symmetry-asymmetry
• autopsy
• vital ultrasonography
• vessels