What treatment guidelines should the primary care clinician follow for a patient who has had a splenectomy? I have a 40-year-old patient who lost her spleen following a MVA at 18 years of age. Before ...

In a splenectomized adult, what are the appropriate vaccinations and frequency of vaccination (ie, pneumococcus, influenza, and Haemophilus influenzae type b [Hib])? Also, should antibiotics be given ...

Vaccination coverage in 595 adult patients undergoing total splenectomy in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona during 1992-2002 was studied. The rates of cover for pneumococcal, Haemophilus influenzae ...

What vaccines and vaccination schedule are recommended for splenectomy patients? I have found conflicting information regarding the need for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) boosters. — BRIANNA SEAVER, ...

Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) is a serious complication of asplenia and is associated with encapsulated organisms, most commonly Streptococcus pneumoniae, but also ...

Patient A, a 68-year-old male with stage IV mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and splenic involvement, underwent an autologous peripheral blood HSCT following myeloablative total body radiation (1200 cGy ...

Tuftsin, one of the proposed parameters of splenic function, was utilized as a monitor of splenic immunologic activity in a patient who underwent splenectomy and autologus spleen implantation at age ...

Splenectomy is a surgery done to remove the spleen for the treatment of various conditions. It can be performed as an open surgery through a large abdominal incision, or with the help of a telescopic ...