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Risk of pneumonia among patients with splenectomy: a retrospective population-based cohort study
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2017 BACKGROUND: People without a spleen are particularly susceptible to various overwhelming infections including pneumonia. Although the association between splenectomy and pneumonia has been previously studied, there has been no study using the national ...
Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao
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Early splenectomy in a large cohort of children with sickle cell anemia: risks and consequences
Haematologica, 2023 In children with sickle cell anemia (SCA), early splenic complications can require splenectomy, but the benefit-to-risk ratio and the age at which splenectomy may be safely performed remain unclear. To address this question, we analyzed the rate of post-
Aimen Mechraoui +11 more
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Transplantation in children [PDF]
, 1976 Kidney transplantation in very young children, less than 2 years of age, has usually failed, mainly because of difficulties maintaining these patients on hemodialysis long enough to permit retransplantation after loss of the original graft.
Charles W. Putnam +15 more
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Efficacy of prophylactic splenectomy for proximal advanced gastric cancer invading greater curvature
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2017 Background For proximal gastric cancer invading the greater curvature, concomitant splenectomy is frequently performed to secure the clearance of lymph node metastases. However, prognostic impact of prophylactic splenectomy remains unclear.
Yu Ohkura +5 more
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Association between splenectomy and portal hypertension in the development of pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary Circulation, 2020 Both portal hypertension and splenectomy are risk factors for pulmonary hypertension. However, the interactions between portal hypertension and splenectomy in the development of pulmonary hypertension remain unclear.
Li Huang +6 more
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Splenectomy is associated with an aggressive tumor growth pattern and altered host immunity in an orthotopic syngeneic murine pancreatic cancer model. [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this study was to investigate whether splenectomy influences the tumor growth and metastatic pattern in an orthotopic syngeneic murine pancreatic cancer model.
Bouvet, Michael +7 more
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Hamster-to-rat heart and liver xenotransplantation with FK506 plus antiproliferative drugs [PDF]
, 1993 Heterotopic hamster hearts transplanted to unmodified LEW rats underwent humoral rejection in 3 days. Survival was prolonged to a median of 4 days with 2 mg/kg/day FK506.
Cramer, D +6 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.This study investigated the impacts of distance to transplant center on posttransplant survival following LDLT. Patients living further away from the transplant center had worse graft and patient survival rates than those of patients living closer, probably due to less frequency of follow‐up visits, and living > 40 miles from our treatment center was ...
Hajime Matsushima +9 more
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Medicine Science, 2019 Although, most splenectomy is predictive due to preoperative tests, sometimes the decision to perform the splenectomy is made intraoperatively for non-primary splenic diseases. The aim of this study to investigate the risks, benefits and necessity of non-
Yusuf Gunay, Ilhan Tasdoven
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Effects of blood transfusion on exercise capacity in thalassemia major patients [PDF]
, 2015 Anemia has an important role in exercise performance. However, the direct link between rapid changes of hemoglobin and exercise performance is still unknown.To find out more on this topic, we studied 18 beta-thalassemia major patients free of relevant ...
Agostoni, P +8 more
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