Background Rupture of the spleen in the absence of trauma or previously diagnosed disease is largely ignored in the emergency literature and is often not documented as such in journals from other ...

RUPTURE of the spleen in infectious mononucleosis is a rare complication of a rather common disease. King, 1 in 1941, presented the first authenticated case. Since then 13 additional cases have been ...

What does the spleen have to do with sickle cell disease? In sickle cell anemia, the spleen is not able to remove bacteria growing in the bloodstream. Every day, billions of red blood cells pass ...

ALTHOUGH sickle-cell disease has been associated with vascular thrombosis and tissue infarction 1 sickle states have only recently been associated with similar phenomena. Splenic infarctions, 2–5 ...

Healthy human red blood cells (RBCs) gradually degrade over their lifespan of ~120 days. However, sickle cells - RBCs from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients - degrade much faster within their ...

The primary goal of this paper is to highlight the occurrence of splenic rupture in patients without risk factors apparent on history. A secondary purpose is to document the diverse nature of ...