Ultrasound diagnostics at Medical Center Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The ultrasound diagnostics department of the Hospital is equipped with modern expert-class equipment with high-frequency transducers, advanced technologies, and most importantly, has highly qualified doctors.

The ultrasound department of the Hospital develops diagnostic methods that are used to evaluate almost the entire human organ system. It is the most popular, simple and informative method of examination and diagnosis, as well as an effective method of evaluating treatment dynamics. The Department’s services include abdominal ultrasound (liver + gallbladder + pancreas + spleen), ultrasound to determine the contractility of the gallbladder, duplex scanning of the vessels of the hepatobiliary region, kidneys and adrenal glands, bladder and prostate, scrotal organs, pelvic organs, thyroid gland, mammary glands, salivary glands, lymph nodes, soft tissues, extracranial vessels of the arms and legs, pleural cavity, joints, ultrasound in pregnancy, as well as monitoring of folliculogenesis, elastography of the liver (with moving wave), includes ultrasound Doppler renal vessels and peripheral nerves.

- Ultrasound is one of the safest and most accessible diagnostic methods. There are recommendations that shall be observed for a correct and reliable ultrasound examination. If we are talking about the abdominal cavity, it is necessary to refrain from gas-forming products for a week, come strictly on an empty stomach, having had a light dinner the day before.

If there is to be an ultrasound study on the bladder, for both men and women it is necessary to drink from 0.5-1 liter of fluid before the examination. If there are serious dermatological diseases, inflammatory processes or traumas in the place of contact between the transducer and the skin; it is not carried out immediately after surgery on the rectum in the presence of fissures and ulcerative lesions in it; it is not carried out after some gynecological operations, - says Aizhan Akhmetzhanova, a ultrasonic diagnostics doctor of the Hospital.

Ultrasound is a safe, effective and accurate method of diagnosis, which provides the doctor with the information necessary to make a correct diagnosis. The ultrasound diagnostics rooms of the Hospital are equipped with ultrasound scanners Logiq E9 (GE), Logiq P9 (GE), Aplio 450e of expert class manufactured by Canon (Japan).