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Asplenia and spleen hypofunction
Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2022 Asplenia (the congenital or acquired absence of the spleen) and hyposplenism (defective spleen function) are common causes of morbidity and mortality. The spleen is a secondary lymphoid organ that is responsible for the regulation of immune responses and blood filtration.
Marco Vincenzo Lenti +10 more
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Anatomical Asplenia in Cat Eye Syndrome: An Expansion of the Disease Spectrum [PDF]
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2013 We report a patient with Cat eye syndrome (CES) associated with anatomical asplenia. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no prior reports of this association.
DeepakBabu Chellapandian +1 more
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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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Asplenia in a patient with Fanconi's anemia-like congenital aplastic anemia
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2000 Fanconi's anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease manifested by pancytopenia resulting from bone marrow failure, variable physical anomalies and cancer susceptibility.
E Erduran, A Okten, G Kaya, A Yildiran
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BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Pneumococcal pneumonia (PP) is a serious infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations.
Enrique Gea-Izquierdo +4 more
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Functional Asplenia and Microscopic (Collagenous) Colitis
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1996 A 54-year-old female presented with a pulmonary infection that resolved completely with antibiotic treatment. Peripheral blood films showed features characteristic of splenic hypofunction, and radiolabelling studies confirmed an absence of splenic ...
Hugh James Freeman
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Ivemark syndrome: asplenia with kidney collecting duct cysts and polysplenia with cerebellar cyst
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2000 Two newborns, one male and one female, from two different families, with Ivemark syndrome proven at autopsy are reported. One of them had asplenia and another had polysplenia.
V Krźelj +5 more
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Case Reports in Cardiology, 2018 Asplenia syndrome is frequently complicated by a total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Pulmonary venous obstruction, following total anomalous pulmonary venous connection surgery, is one of the risk factors for morbidity and mortality.
Hideharu Oka +4 more
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Ultrastructural and morphometric analysis of enlarged platelets in congenital isolated asplenia [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2019 Introduction. Congenital asplenia is an extremely rare condition that can be separate entity due to a specific defect of spleen development or may occur in the context of a malformation syndrome.
Marković Olivera +8 more
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Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection in Patients with Asplenia: A Spanish Perspective over a 25-Year Period [PDF]
AntibioticsAnatomical or functional asplenia constitutes a risk factor for Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) infection, being more frequent in children and the elderly and in people with multiple comorbidities.
Enrique Gea-Izquierdo +4 more
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