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Economic burden of sickle cell disease in Australia

Internal Medicine Journal, Volume 55, Issue 8, Page 1251-1257, August 2025.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited condition that impairs red blood cell function, posing a substantial health burden on patients. As the prevalence of SCD in Australia rises due to migration, discussions surrounding treatment and management strategies are becoming more prominent. Aims Australia lacks a dedicated study on the
Steve Nwokeocha, Helen E. Haysom, Cameron Wellard, Tracy Roberts, Mwayi Kachapila, Melissa Chee, Dennis Petrie, Zoe K. McQuilten, Neil Waters, Anthea Greenway, Kylie Mason, Anna Nelson, Zane Kaplan, P. Joy Ho, Erica M. Wood, Adam Irving, on behalf of the Australian Haemoglobinopathy Registry, Sant‐Rayn Pasricha, Gemma Crighton, Jill Finlayson, Jim Vadolas, Merrole Cole‐Sinclair, Carolyn Greely, Juliana Teo, Yvonne Brennan, Tina Louise Carter, Giselle Kidson‐Gerber, Lye Lin Ho, Mimi Yui, Manika Pal, Claire Dowsing, Pasquale Mario Barbaro, Janis Chamerlain   +32 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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Persistent non-viable

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
A 40-year-old woman was admitted with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Although she improved clinically under intravenous artesunate, parasitemia unexpectedly increased.
Arthur Cornet, Jean-Marc Schwob, Camille Roussel, Romain Cordaillat, Christian Nsanzabana, Esther Kuenzli, Rosalie Zimmermann, Andreas Neumayr, Pierre Buffet, Gilles Eperon, Stefano Musumeci   +10 more
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Use of Immunosuppression, Romiplostim, and Splenectomy to Achieve Remission in a British Shorthair Cat With Primary Immune‐Mediated Thrombocytopenia

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT A 2‐year‐old female spayed British Shorthair cat was diagnosed with immune‐mediated thrombocytopenia (ITP) after presenting with a 3‐week history of gastrointestinal bleeding and anemia. Treatment with an immunosuppressive dose of glucocorticoids was initiated, but relapse occurred within 3 weeks.
Josh M. Kennils, Helen E. Wilson
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Friendly Kisses Can Be Deadly: Capnocytophaga canimorsus Bacteremia in an Asplenic Patient Exposed to Canine Saliva

Case Reports in Critical Care, 2023
The differential diagnosis for febrile asplenic patients must always include opportunistic infections. Capnocytophaga canimorsus is one such infection.
Christina Rubio, Jared Miller, Tomasz Zrodlowski, Susanti Ie   +3 more
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Cystic lymphangioma of the mesentery and hyposplenism in celiac disease.

, 2007
Celiac disease is characterized by intestinal inflammation and mucosal atrophy that improves on a gluten-free diet. Delayed diagnosis can result in diet-refractory disease known as refractory sprue, which is linked to other disorders (intestinal lymphoma,
Masselli, Gabriele, Grieco, Antonio, Cammarota, Giovanni, Miele, Luca, Civello, Ignazio Massimo, Larocca, Luigi Maria, Forgione, Alessandra, Vero, Vittoria, Capristo, Esmeralda, Molinari, Francesco, Pierconti, Francesco, Gasbarrini, Giovanni Battista, Martini, Maurizio, Larocca, Luigi M, Civello, Ignazio M, Gasbarrini, Giovanni   +15 more
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Spleen sizing by ultrasound scan and risk of pneumococcal infection in patients with chronic GVHD: preliminary observations. [PDF]

, 1999
Encapsulated bacteria infections (EBI) can cause severe complications after BMT, usually occurring in patients with chronic GVHD (cGVHD) and attributed to functional hyposplenism.
SELLERI, Carmine, Rotoli B., Picardi M, PICARDI, MARCO, Selleri C   +4 more
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Modern Aspects of the Surgical Treatment of Children with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Медицинский вестник Юга России, 2010
The main link in the pathogenesis of ITP is an excessive elimination of platelets in venous sinuses of the spleen. It justifies the splenectomy in this pathology, which increases the immunosuppression, which is caused by earlier courses ...
I. I. Babich, O. V. Korotkova, K. N. Chardarov, K. S. Aslanyan   +3 more
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The spleen and sickle cell disease: the sick(led) spleen

, 2014
The spleen has a combined function of immune defence and quality control of senescent or altered red cells. It is the first organ injured in sickle cell anaemia (SCA) with evidence of hyposplenism present before 12 months in the majority of children ...
Rees, David, Brousse, Valentine, Buffet, Pierre, David Rees, Pierre Buffet, Valentine Brousse   +5 more
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Pneumococcal vaccine in patients with absent or dysfunctional spleen.

, 2000
Four patients (3 long-term Hodgkin disease survivors and 1 recipient of an allogeneic bone marrow transplant) developed severe infections with Streptococcus pneumoniae after staging splenectomy or due to functional hyposplenism after total body ...
Mühlemann K, Friedl A, Cerny A, Cerny T, Kobel DE   +4 more
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