Objective Pancreatic stricture in trauma or chronic pancreatitis leads to increased intraductal pressure and localised leak of pancreatic juices which causes pseudoaneurysm of splenic artery or other adjacent arteries. Simultaneous surgery for ruptured splenic artery pseudoaneurysm and drainage procedure for pancreatic duct stricture is not reported in literature. Attempts to classify peripancr...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disease, which affects a wide variety of organs including the spleen. Splenic involvement in SLE includes conditions such as splenomegaly, hyposplenism, infarction, and spontaneous rupture. However, only a few cases of splenic calcifications in patients with SLE have been reported. Herein, we present a case of a 24-year-old female...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is being seen more frequently in adults as a consequence of shifting patterns of infection and immunity and there has been an apparent increase in the complications of dengue infection. Spontaneous splenic ruptures are rare but life-threatening complications of infectious diseases. We describe a fatal case of spontaneous splenic rupture in an adult patient with DH...

BACKGROUND Non-traumatic rupture of the spleen is a rare condition. It can occur in a pathological spleen caused by any of a variety of diseases. For yet unknown reasons this condition may sometimes involve an apparently normal spleen as well. OBJECTIVES To examine the incidence, symptoms, causes, therapy and prognosis of "spontaneous" splenic rupture. METHODS We conducted a retrospective s...

most common tumors of the spleen are hematologic and lymphoid malignancies. non-lymphoid and non-hematologic tumors of the spleen are very rare, the most common of which are vascular tumors. this group of tumors in the spleen is composed of heterogeneous tumors such as hemangioma, angioendothelioma (ae), littoral cell angioma, and angiosarcoma. there are several histologic forms of ae such as e...

I read with great interest the recent publication by Tanrıöver et al. on splenic artery embolization, in which they reached in conclusion that splenic artery embolization might be an option for hemolytic anemia as a bridging therapy to surgery or as an alternative therapy, especially in critically ill patients with disorders that contraindicate surgery [1]. Partial splenic embolization (PSE) is...

Surgical trauma leads to a severe deterioration of the immune system. Electroacupuncture (EA) may improve the immunodeficiency that occurs following surgery; however, the underlying signaling mechanisms require further study. In the present study, 40 rats were equally randomized into four groups: Control; Control + EA; Trauma; Trauma + EA. EA was applied at the 'Zusanli' (ST36) and 'Lanwei' (Ex...