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The spleen is an organ that sits under your rib cage on the upper left side of your abdomen. It helps fight infection and filters unneeded material, such as old or damaged blood cells, from your blood. The most common reason for splenectomy isto treat a ruptured spleen, which is often c...
Open splenectomy requires a larger surgical cut than the laparoscopic method. The surgeon makes an incision across the middle or left side of your abdomen underneath the rib cage. After locating the spleen, the surgeon disconnects it from thepancreasand the body's blood supply and then removes ...
The spleen sits inthe upper left of the abdomen, protected by the rib cage. It is the largest organ of the lymphatic system — the circulation of the immune system. It recycles old red blood cells and stores platelets (components of the blood that help stop bleeding) and white blood cells...
Case presentation: We present a case of 39 years old female Ethiopian patient who presented to us complaining constant lower abdominal pain especially on the right side associated with swelling of one year which got worse over the preceding few months of her presentation to our facility. She is...
Your spleen is an organ above your stomach and under your ribs on your left side. It is about as big as your fist. The spleen is part of yourlymphatic system, which fights infection and keeps your body fluids in balance. It contains white blood cells that fight germs. Your spleen also...
the capacitance and compliance of the splanchnic vascular bed via modulation of the greater splanchnic nerve, and greater splanchnic nerve ablation for volume management, have been proposed as a potential therapeutic intervention to increase unstressed blood volume. Studies have shown that right-sided gre...
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The spleen will enlarge when it performs more of its duties to filter blood or manufacture blood cells. Therefore, any disease or condition that damages red blood cells, and requires them to be filtered and removed from the bloodstream, will cause the spleen to become larger. ...
It occupied the right iliac region, but could be transported into every region of the abdomen without causing pain or discomfort. No area of splenic dulness could be made out in the normal situation of the spleen. The pelvic viscera were apparently normal. The blood corpuscles were normal in...