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, 2014 Asplenia and splenic hypoplasia refer to the complete or partial lack of splenic tissue. Congenital asplenia is a rare life-threatening condition, often presenting with pneumococcal sepsis. It may arise as part of situs abnormalities, or result from an unrelated specific defect of spleen development.
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Kawashima Procedure After Staged Unifocalizations in Asplenia With Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries [PDF]
, 2010 We report a Kawashima procedure (total cavopulmonary shunt) successfully carried out for asplenia syndrome, pulmonary atresia, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries.
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Unusual Variation of Asplenia Syndrome.
Japanese Heart Journal, 1991 The case of a 1-year-old cyanotic boy diagnosed with asplenia syndrome has been reported. By physical and laboratory examinations, levocardia, atrial inversion, primum ASD, single atrioventricular valve, single ventricle (left-hand morphology), rudimentary right ventricle (anterior, left-sided), pulmonary stenosis, left-sided vena cava, single vena ...
GUCUYENER, K +4 more
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P-413. Duration of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Children with Anatomic or Functional Asplenia: A Multidisciplinary, Multicenter Survey [PDF]
Open Forum Infect DisKathryn E Weakley +4 more
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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2015 A 45-year-old-man presented with the abrupt onset of a fever over 30 years after surgical splenectomy. He presented with symptoms and findings that seemed consistent with influenza. He rapidly developed fulminant meningitis that resulted in his death.
Mitchell L, Huebner, Kristin A, Milota
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Histoplasmosis and asplenia [PDF]
Thorax, 2010 A 42-year-old asplenic woman was evaluated for a 2-week history of intermittent high-grade fevers and pleuritic chest pain and skin rash (figure 1). A CT scan of the chest showed multiple small nodules on both lungs (figure 2). Fungal serological studies were negative. A skin biopsy revealed palisading dermal granulomatous …
Harris V K, Naina +2 more
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Atrioventricular canal defect and genetic syndromes: the unifying role of sonic hedgehog [PDF]
, 2019 The atrioventricular canal defect (AVCD) is a congenital heart defect (CHD) frequently associated with extracardiac anomalies (75%). Previous observations from a personal series of patients with AVCD and "polydactyly syndromes" showed that the distinct ...
Baban, A +9 more
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Longterm efficacy of a patient focused intervention in patients with asplenia- a three year follow-up of the PrePPS trial. [PDF]
InfectionCamp J +6 more
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Fetal heterotaxy with tricuspid atresia, pulmonary atresia, and isomerism of the right atrial appendages at 22 weeks. [PDF]
, 2013 We report the accurate prenatal diagnosis at 22 weeks gestation of right atrial isomerism in association with tricuspid atresia. Several distinctive sonographic features of isomerism of the right atrial appendages were present in this fetus: complex ...
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