The laparoscopic Warshaw procedure (LWP) is a considered to carry risk of splenic infarction and perigastric varices formation. We retrospectively analyzed the clinical outcomes relationship between distribution hilum vessels in patients who underwent LWP from February 2007 2017. A total 19 LWP, median follow-up duration was 78 months. operative time blood loss were 295 min 200 gr. Six with par...

wandering spleen, defined as a spleen without its usual peritoneal attachments, is a rare entity. we report a 34-year-old woman with acute abdomen due to torsion of the long vascular pedicle of a wandering spleen, displaced in the abdominal cavity, and infarction of the spleen. wandering spleen was diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography (ct) scan, and was managed by splenectomy in this...

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...

BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis (IE) has a high risk of morbidity and mortality. Complications are often due to systemic embolization. We treated a 47-year-old hemodialysis man with infective endocarditis complicated with cerebral and splenic infarction. METHODS The patient was brought to the emergency department because of altered mental status and fecal incontinence. Although he did not m...

Splenic cysts are a rare entity in the Western population and are either true cysts (primary, 25%) or pseudocysts (secondary, 75%) complicating trauma, haemorrhage or infarction. Congenital or simple splenic cysts are the commonest primary cysts and surgery is recommended for cysts larger than 5 cm as these are prone to infection, bleeding or rupture and for symptomatic or complicated cysts. Sp...

Systemic chemotherapy treatments, commonly those that comprise oxaliplatin, have been linked to the appearance of distinctive liver lesions that evolves to portal hypertension, spleen enlargement, platelets sequestration, and thrombocytopenia. This outcome can interrupt treatment or force dosage reduction, decreasing efficiency of cancer therapy. We conducted a prospective phase II study for th...

History.?Bilta, a native boy aged 4 years, resident of Durbhunga, was brought by his parents to the Raj Hospital, Ihirbhunga, on the 5th of January last. He had been suffering from irregular attacks of fever for some five months previously, and his parents stated that when he had had the fever for two months or so, they noticed swelling and puffiness of his abdomen. He attended the hospital as ...