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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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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Reduced‐port laparoscopic colectomy (RPLC) for colorectal cancer offers modest intraoperative benefits, including shorter operative time and lower blood loss, while maintaining comparable postoperative recovery, lymph node yield, and complication rates to multi‐port laparoscopic colectomy (MPLC).
Ayesha Shaukat +9 more
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American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current treatments for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA), rare autoimmune diseases in which autoreactive B cells play a major role, can lead to high response rates; however, for many patients these responses are not durable or maintained after treatment discontinuation.
Matthieu Mahévas +4 more
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Splenectomy does not improve survival in chronic active Epstein-Barr virus disease patients
Annals of HematologyWe aimed to evaluate the clinical value of splenectomy as a treatment for Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus disease (CAEBVD). We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data from clinical records of patients received splenectomy in our institution from ...
Junzhe Wang +7 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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Heliyon, 2023 Background: Hepatosplenic candidiasis is a rare but severe complication in immunocompromised patients undergoing chemotherapy. Antifungal agents are widely accepted as the first choices for therapy.
Songfeng Yu +6 more
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American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although circulating nucleated red blood cells (cNRBCs) have previously been detected in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), their prevalence and clinical significance during steady‐state disease have not been established. We retrospectively analyzed 270 adults with an SS or Sβ0‐thalassemia genotype.
Ugo Boccadifuoco +7 more
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Splenectomy does not affect the development of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2020 The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway offers a proposed mechanism to describe the increased risk of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI).
Rindi Uhlich +4 more
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HEMATOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS OF PARTIAL AND COMPLETE SPLENECTOMY IN DOGS [PDF]
Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 1999 The purpose of the current study was to describe the effect of surgical splenectomy technique either partial or complete on some biochemical and hematological parameters.
IBRAHIM ELSHAHAWY +2 more
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Splenic Tropism and Spleen‐Modulated Systemic Inflammation in Acute Plasmodium vivax Malaria
American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In chronic Plasmodium vivax (Pv) infection, the spleen accounts for over 98% of total‐body parasite biomass. Whether splenic tropism also occurs in acute infection and how the spleen influences pathogenesis have not been systematically explored. In Papua, Indonesia, we compared clinical and hematology data in 24 spleen‐intact and 25 previously
Steven Kho +27 more
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