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Northern Region asplenia register - analysis of first two years

Objectives-To assess the feasibility of setting up a register of patients with asplenia within a defined geographical area; to ensure that guidelines on best practice were implemented; to obtain information on antibody levels to pneumococcal capsular ...
Spickett GP, Bullimore J, Smith S, Saunders P, Wallis J   +4 more
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Double Choker: Double Aortic Arch with Bilateral Aortic Coarctation Associated with Heterotaxy-Asplenia Syndrome and Complex Atrioventricular Canal Defect. [PDF]

CASE (Phila), 2020
Dixon CM, Dyar D, Aurigemma D, Printz BF, Hegde S, Ryan J, Loo JC, Sun HY.   +7 more
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Infectious Etiologies and Antimicrobial Management of Acute Chest Syndrome in Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients: Pathogen Identification Patterns and Clinical Outcomes from a Five-Year Retrospective Study in Eastern Saudi Arabia

Pathogens
Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is a life-threatening complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) with complex infectious and non-infectious etiologies. Bacterial pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and atypical organisms such
Ali Alsaeed, Reda Aleid, Omar Amin, Amjad Alansari, Hadi Aleid, Mohammed Aleid   +5 more
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Atrio-visceral heterotaxy syndrome : a new concept and clinical studies

Heterotaxia of atrium and/or thoracoabdominal organs has various symptoms and is not appropriately comprehended by traditional concepts such as "asplenia syndrome" and "polysplenia syndrome".
篠原, 徹, Shinohara, Tohru
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The absent and vanishing spleen: congenital asplenia and hyposplenism--two case reports.

, 2005
Contains fulltext : 48194.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)Two unrelated patients are reported: one with isolated familial asplenia diagnosed postmortem, the other with isolated hyposplenism diagnosed after recurring invasive ...
Deuren, M. van, Halbertsma, F.J., Weemaes, C.M.R., Neeleman, C.   +3 more
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Risk conditions for invasive pneumococcal disease in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine
Summary: Background: The burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in adults remains high despite vaccination programs. Age is currently the prime criterion used to define target groups for prevention.
Kim Ditzel, Federica Giardina, Jaap ten Oever, Amelieke J.H. Cremers   +3 more
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Asplenia-Associated Babesiosis: A Quagmire Traversed by Exchange Transfusion.

Babesiosis is a potentially life-threatening tick-borne parasitic infection. Severe disease in splenectomized individuals may require exchange transfusion.
Rovenstine, Luke, Ansari, Fawwad, Gondal, Muhammad Umer Riaz, Bokhari, Syed Ayan Zulfiqar, Jaleel, Syed, Khan, Toqeer, Jyothi Ramachandran Nair, Devi Parvathy, Kiyani, Zainab   +7 more
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A cohort study to evaluate infection prevention protocol in pediatric trauma patients with blunt splenic injury in a Dutch level 1 trauma center

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2018
Roy Spijkerman, Michel PJ Teuben, Falco Hietbrink, William LM Kramer, Luke PH Leenen Department of Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands Purpose: Asplenic patients are at increased risk for the development of overwhelming
Spijkerman R, Teuben MPJ, Hietbrink F, Kramer WLM, Leenen LPH   +4 more
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Successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of life-threatening atrial tachycardia in an infant with asplenia syndrome. [PDF]

J Cardiol Cases, 2019
Yasuhara J, Kumamoto T, Kojima T, Shimizu H, Yoshiba S, Kobayashi T, Oyanagi T, Yamagishi H, Sumitomo N.   +8 more
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Biliary atresia

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2008
Biliary atresia (BA) is a cholangiodestructive disease affecting biliary tract, which ultimately leads to cirrhosis, liver failure and death if not treated. The incidence is higher in Asian countries than in Europe.
Sinha C, Davenport Mark
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