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Splenic abscess: Diagnosis and treatment
Splenic abscess is a rare infectious disease with a high mortality rate. Diagnosis of splenic abscess also faces many disadvantages due to atypical clinical symptoms, mainly based on imaging methods. There are many treatments for splenic abscesses, depending on the severity of the disease and individual patient response.
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What is Banti-type splenomegaly?
Banti-type splenomegaly is a pathology of cirrhosis, causing splenomegaly and decreased blood cell counts. If splenectomy is performed when the liver is not yet cirrhotic or mildly cirrhosis will be prevented from progressing to cirrhosis.
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Is an enlarged spleen dangerous?
Enlarged and swollen spleen to many times the normal size is a sign of abnormal changes in the body. There are many causes for an enlarged spleen, but the direct cause is that the spleen has to work with an excessive frequency.
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What is the effect of the spleen?
The spleen is an organ located just below your rib cage on the left side. There are many causes such as infections, liver disease, and some cancers that can cause an enlarged spleen, also known as hypersplenism. Hypersplenism often does not cause symptoms and is only discovered accidentally during a routine health check-up or due to another disease. Therefore, to treat hypersplenism, doctors need to focus on treating the disease that leads to this hypersplenism symptom.
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Spleen rupture: How is it treated?
The spleen is located just below the left rib cage and helps the body fight infections and filter old blood cells in the blood. Although it is surrounded by a tough shell and located quite deep in the abdomen, the rate of spleen rupture due to trauma ranks first among abdominal injuries, with sports accidents, punches to the abdomen, and traffic accidents being the most common causes.
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