Physician decision making in selection of second-line treatments in immune thrombocytopenia in children. [PDF]
, 2018 Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an acquired autoimmune bleeding disorder which presents with isolated thrombocytopenia and risk of hemorrhage. While most children with ITP promptly recover with or without drug therapy, ITP is persistent or chronic in ...
Bennett, Carolyn M. +23 more
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A Retrospective Observational Single-Centre Study on the Burden of Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) [PDF]
, 2012 Background: German data on economic consequences of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) are limited. Patients and Methods: A retrospective, observational study based on chart review of adult patients with a confirmed diagnosis of ITP was conducted at a German ...
Ackermann, Birgit +6 more
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SPLENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE SPLENECTOMY COMPLICATIONS
THE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2017 Objectives: To analyze the complications following elective splenectomy. StudyDesign: Descriptive cross- sectional. Setting and Duration: This study was conducted in thedepartment of surgery, Madinah Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad from January 2011 to December2016.
Saira Saleem +3 more
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Post-splenectomy sepsis: preventative strategies, challenges, and solutions
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2019 Removal of the spleen had already been established as a routine technique to treat splenic trauma and other diseases affecting the spleen before the anatomy, physiology, and function of the spleen were known in the mid-twentieth century. It is now widely
Sarah Luu, D. Spelman, I. Woolley
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204 Splenektomi Olgusunun Analizi; Splenektomi Endikasyonları Değişiyor Mu?
Van Tıp Dergisi, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Comprehension of the role of spleen in immune processes and definition of laparoscopic splenectomy have led to narrowing of indications of splenectomy, preferring spleen-sparing surgical approaches if splenectomy will be performed for ...
Necat Almalı, Özkan Yılmaz
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Light chain systemic amyloidosis manifested as liver failure complicated with fatal spontaneous splenic rupture: A case report [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 For a patient with manifestations of nausea, abdominal distension, spontaneous splenic rupture, obvious liver enlargement, low red blood cells and platelets, yellow sclera, and spider angioma, Congo red staining of liver and spleen tissues indicated amyloidosis.
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A critical appraisal of the evidence for the role of splenectomy in adults and children with ITP
British Journal of Haematology, 2018 In primary chronic immune thrombocytopenia, long‐term response to splenectomy, with 60% of patients enjoying a treatment‐free life, is higher when compared with rituximab and similar to that with continuous thrombopoietin‐receptor agonists (TPO‐RA ...
F. Rodeghiero
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BioMed Research International, 2019 Background Splenectomy can improve liver function and survival in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and liver cirrhosis. We investigated the underlying mechanism in a mouse model of concanavalin A- (ConA-) induced liver fibrosis.
Yongjuan Wang +6 more
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Can we continue research in splenectomized dogs? Mycoplasma haemocanis: Old problem - New insight [PDF]
, 2004 We report the appearance of a Mycoplasma haemocanis infection in laboratory dogs, which has been reported previously, yet, never before in Europe. Outbreak of the disease was triggered by a splenectomy intended to prepare the dogs for a hemorrhagic shock
A. Schropp +35 more
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Successful Splenectomy for Hypersplenism in Wilson's Disease: A Single Center Experience from China.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Splenomegaly and pancytopenia are common in Wilson's disease (WD) and splenectomy is one of the conventional treatments for splenomegaly and the associated pancytopenia.
Liang-Yong Li +8 more
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