Renal dimensions in the Nephrology Department of Befelatanana Hospital, Antananarivo

The knowledge of normale renal sizes specific for each individual and for any ethnicity, allows diagnostic and therapeutic medical decision. For a low-income country such as Madagascar, ultrasound is an ideal tool for this purpose. This study aims to collect data on renal dimensions and to seek the correlation between these data and the demographic and anthropometric parameters in Malagasies. This is a retrospective study of 200 non-diabetic patients without chronic kidney disease, spanning 3 years, conducted in the Nephrology Department of Befelatanana Hospital, Antananarivo. The average age of our patients was 45 ±16 years, with a sex-ratio of 0,9. On average, the dimensions (length x width x thickness) were 98 mm × 42 mm × 30 mm for right kidney, 99 mm × 45 mm × 31 mm for the left kidney. We found a significant difference between the right and left kidney in length (p