The splenic platelet reservoir in sickle cell anemia.

The presence of hypersplenism and or respond to intravenous particulate functional asplenia occurring concomiantigen, retains the splenic reservoir tantly in a child with sickle cell anemia function to pool platelets. This reserprompted a study of the splenic platevoir function is lost in the older patient let reservoir in this hemoglobinopathy. in whom the spleen has become autoThe young child with sickle cell anemia infarcted. Thus, an independence of and a large spleen, who is unable to certain splenic functions is present in remove Howell-Jolly bodies, concenyoung children with sickle cell anemia trate 99 ’Tc sulfur colloid in his spleen, who have splenomegaly.