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Swine models of hemorrhagic shock: to splenectomize or not to splenectomize, that is the question.

Devlin JJ, Kircher SJ, Littlejohn LF.
The Journal of trauma.J Trauma.2009 Oct;67(4):895-6. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b837ab.
PMID 19820608

[Effectiveness of splenectomy in high-risk patients needing surgery].

Hołowiecka A1, Zielińska M, Krzemień S, Hołowiecki J.
Wiadomości lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960).Wiad Lek.2004;57(1-2):85-9.
Splenectomy is a useful method of treatment in some hematological disorders (congenital microspherocytosis, ITP, hypersplenism). However in many clinical situations the unclear prognostic factors, bad patient's condition or non-typical disease's course may impede the decision to splenectomize. We pr
PMID 15181756

Partial splenic embolization: long-term outcome.

Pålsson B1, Hallén M, Forsberg AM, Alwmark A.
Langenbeck's archives of surgery / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie.Langenbecks Arch Surg.2003 Feb;387(11-12):421-6. Epub 2003 Jan 15.
BACKGROUND: Partial splenic embolization (PSE) was introduced in the 1980s. We studied the long-term follow-up results of a PSE-treated patient cohort.PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-six severely ill patients (median age 63.5 years) were treated with a graded PSE a total of 52 times, mainly due to blee
PMID 12607123

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