title: Relevant sonographic parameters of a painful shoulder in symptomatic dialyzed patients versus asymptomatic dialyzed and healthy volunteers.
abstract: The aim of this study is to find dialysis relevant sonographic parameters of painful shoulder of the symptomatic dialyzed patients comparing them with parameters in asymptomatic dialyzed patients and healthy volunteers. Significant difference in all metric parameters (thickness of supraspinatus tendon, diameter of biceps tendon sheet and capsula-bone distance) were noticed between all groups and the symptomatic had the highest values. Asymptomatic had the higher values then volunteers. Inhomogenicity of the tendon and biceps tendon sheet effusion in the symptomatic patients were the most often occurred. Subdeltoid effusion, deposits and tendon rupture were found only in symptomatic patients. No difference in presence of calcifications between symptomatic and asymptomatic was found. Metric parameters are relevant and associated with dialysis, as well as biceps tendon effusion tendon inhomogenicity, deposits and subdeltoid effusion. Tendon ruptures are relatively rare and nonspecific.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Split, Croatia. igorbarisic@net.hr
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barisić
authors.forename: Dragan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ljutić
authors.forename: Stipan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janković
authors.forename: Tonko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vlak
authors.forename: Snjezana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tomić
authors.forename: Slaven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kokić
authors.forename: Marinko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erceg
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017746:Joint Capsule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012785:Shoulder Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D020069:Shoulder Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013710:Tendons / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography