A mite‑borne infection, scrub typhus is endemic in India. It causes a myriad of complications with multisystemic involvement like meningoencephalitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), myocarditis and also known to cause abdominal hepatomegaly, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, pancreatitis, renal failure. Among the organs, splenic considered be very rare usual presentation such cases spl...

I mage-guided, minimally invasive arterial interventions are increasingly performed in the treatment of nontraumatic splenic disorders as an alternative to surgery. This article reviews various nontraumatic clinical applications for splenic arterial interventions, including hypersplenism, sinistral portal hypertension, nontraumatic splenic hemorrhage, and vascular anomalies. Technical and anato...

BACKGROUND Splenic rupture or infarction can occur secondary to acute infectious mononucleosis. Patients with abdominal pain and known or suspected infectious mononucleosis mandate evaluation for these complications, which can have significant morbidity or mortality. CASE REPORT An 18-year old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of left upper quadrant abdominal...

The spleen is the most commonly injured visceral organ in blunt abdominal trauma in both adults and children. Nonoperative management is the current standard of practice for patients who are hemodynamically stable. However, simple observation alone has been reported to have a failure rate as high as 34%; the rate is even higher among patients with high-grade splenic injuries (American Associati...

BACKGROUND Splenic embolization can increase nonoperative salvage. However, complications are not clearly defined. A retrospective multicenter review was performed to delineate the risks and benefits of splenic embolization. METHODS A retrospective chart review of all patients undergoing splenic embolization from 1997 to 2002 at four separate Level I trauma centers was performed. Reviewed res...

Splenic metastasis usually dose not occur in the absence of disseminated metastatic disease. Isolated splenic metastasis secondary to thymic carcinoma, which rarely metastasizes extrathoracically, has never been documented in the literature. We present a 74-years-old man with an isolated splenic metastasis secondary to thymic carcinoma. The imaging findings and pathogenesis of the splenic metas...

Tuberculosis is a common infectious cause of splenic enlargement in developing countries, but tubercular splenic abscesses are a rare presentation, found predominantly in immunocompromised populations. We report a case of tubercular splenic abscesses with isolated splenic vein thrombosis in an immunocompetent person.

Splenic artery aneurysm, one of the most common visceral aneurysms, accounts for 60% of all visceral aneurysm cases. Open surgery is the traditional treatment for splenic artery aneurysm but has the disadvantages of serious surgical injuries, a high risk of complications, and a high mortality rate.We report a case who was presented with splenic artery aneurysm. A 54-year-old woman complained of...

Splenic vein thrombosis is a relatively common finding in pancreatitis. Gastric variceal bleeding is a life-threatening complication of splenic vein thrombosis, resulting from increased blood flow to short gastric vein. Traditionally, splenectomy is considered the treatment of choice. However, surgery in necrotizing pancreatitis is dangerous, because of severe inflammation, adhesion, and bleedi...

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