The Florida Department of Health has suspended the license of Thomas Shaknovsky, DO, who removed a patient's liver instead of his spleen, contributing to his death. An emergency suspension order from ...

A woman says she spent two months in the hospital following a surgical mix-up. A Minnesota woman in her 80s is now living with stage 5 kidney disease after a surgeon allegedly removed her kidney ...

Splenomegaly is one of the characteristic signs of an overactive spleen. It can cause platelets to pool inside of your spleen and cause thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytopenia is when you have a low ...

Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) demonstrated strong predictive accuracy for liver decompensation in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD), with an optimal cutoff of 50 ...

An Alabama woman is seeking legal action against a surgeon whom she alleges removed her late husband's liver instead of his spleen. On the evening of August 21, Thomas Shaknovsky, DO, operated on ...

A Twin Cities woman is suing over an alleged medical mistake that she says cost her a healthy left kidney. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the surgeon and the Allina ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 38 (September 18, 2018), pp. 9574-9579 (6 pages) In red blood cell (RBC) diseases, the spleen contributes ...

Cricketer Shreyas Iyer's recent spleen injury highlights the dangers of splenic rupture in high-impact sports. A blow or fall can cause this delicate organ to tear, leading to internal bleeding with ...

Wendy Rappaport was hospitalized for two months after she said in a lawsuit that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty A Minnesota woman has filed a ...