What are the Current Indications and Contraindications for a Splenectomy?

Splenectomy can treat conditions characterized by hemolysis or thrombocytopenia caused autoantibodies splenic reticuloendothelial function, as well disorders massive splenomegaly and hypersplenism with cytopenias, such hereditary spherocytosis, transfusion-dependent thalassemia, immune thrombocytopenia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, marginal zone lymph is no longer used for Hodgkin disease staging typically avoided in lymphoproliferative syndrome, stomatocytosis xerocytosis, cold agglutinin disease, paroxysmal hemoglobinuria, Gaucher cirrhosis-related hypersplenism.