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Impact of COVID-19 on people with non-functioning spleens in Australia

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Background: COVID-19 has had enormous impact on health and social systems, with stringent public health measures enacted across Australia. The virus itself disproportionately affects immunocompromised individuals including people without functioning ...
Maeve Barlow, Penelope Jones, Mihiri Weerasuria, Jessica O’Bryan, Denis Spelman, Ian Woolley   +5 more
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SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA AND MALARIA

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2012
Sickle cell anaemia is a major chapter within haemolytic anaemias; at the same time, its epidemiology is a remarkable signature of the past and present world distribution of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
Lucio Luzzatto
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Malaria Infection in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria: Association with Markers of Hyposplenism [PDF]

Malaria is considered an important cause of morbidity and mortality among people living with sickle cell disease (SCD). This has partly been attributed to the loss of splenic function that occurs early in the disease process.
Nasir Garba Zango (17823920), Mohammed Dauda (7230224), Adekunle Adekile (7509665), Imelda Bates (205456), Adama Isah Ladu (17823911), Abubakar Sadiq Baba (17823917), Abubakar Farate (17823923), Mairo Usman Kadaura (17823914), Caroline Jeffery (55153)   +8 more
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Splenectomy factsheet for health professionals

, 2014
This professional factsheet highlights the specific management required for patients who have an absent spleen or functional hyposplenism. given they are at increased risk of severe infection compared with the general population.
Public Health Agency
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Stormorken Syndrome Caused by a p.R304W STIM1 Mutation: The First Italian Patient and a Review of the Literature

Frontiers in Neurology, 2018
Stormorken syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disease that is characterized by a complex phenotype that includes tubular aggregate myopathy (TAM), bleeding diathesis, hyposplenism, mild hypocalcemia and additional features, such as miosis and a mild ...
Oscar Borsani, Daniela Piga, Stefania Costa, Alessandra Govoni, Francesca Magri, Andrea Artoni, Claudia M. Cinnante, Gigliola Fagiolari, Patrizia Ciscato, Maurizio Moggio, Nereo Bresolin, Nereo Bresolin, Giacomo P. Comi, Giacomo P. Comi, Stefania Corti, Stefania Corti   +15 more
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Splenic Dysfunction From Celiac Disease Resulting in Severe Babesiosis

, 2017
We describe a 79-year-old Irish man who, because he had hyposplenism and splenic atrophy due to adult celiac disease, became critically ill from a severe Babesia divergens infection.
Salman Aslam, O\u27Connell, S, Gray, J, Jeremy Gray, Concepta Merry, Nora Kinsella, Rittick Patowary, Klaus-Peter Hunfeld, Moustafa Abdou, Sarah O’Connell, Craig Lyons, Hussain Alizadeh, Annetta Zintl, Lyons, C, Aslam, S, Abdou, M, Kinsella, N, Zintl, A, Merry, C, Gary P. Wormser, Patowary, R, Hunfeld, K, Alizadeh, H, Wormser, Gary   +23 more
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The spectrum of sickle cell disease

American Journal of Hematology, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 296-297, February 2025.
Barbara J. Bain
wiley   +1 more source

IMMUNOBIOCHEMICAL AND HAEMATOLOGICAL INDEXES OF RATS BLOOD AFTER THE REMOVAL OF SPLEEN

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003
Background: The spleen is not a vitally important organ, but the removal of spleen can adversely affect the patient’s health, especially that of children.
G U Struchko, L M Merkulova, I S Stomenskaya, M Zahid, P Kayastha   +4 more
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Splenic function in old age

, 1998
Hyposplenism has been reported in elderly people. However, from previous studies, it was not clear whether the observed alterations in splenic function were a physiologic effect of advanced age itself or a consequence of age-related diseases.
Maioli F., Forti P., Ravaglia G., Boschi F., CORAZZA, GINO ROBERTO, BIAGI, FEDERICO   +5 more
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Infection of DR4 mice with wt MHV-68 results in hypospleny.

, 2016
A) Photomicrographs showing examples of normal spleens, of a very tiny spleen and of tumor spleens. B) Quantitative analysis of hyposplenism. Mice were infected at an age of 10–13 weeks.
S. Raffegerst (841270), H. Adler (841273), M. Hohloch (841272), B. Steer (841271)   +3 more
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