A reappraisal of the role of splenectomy in children receiving renal allografts.
Surgery
; 82(4): 510-3, 1977 Oct.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-331536
ABSTRACT
Four renal allograft recipients between 8 and 14 years of age died of acute fulminating infections less than 72 hours after the onset of symptoms. These patients all had undergone splenectomy at the time of related donor renal transplantation. Because the therapeutic value of splenectomy in renal transplantation has not been established, the role of adjunctive splenectomy is evaluated, and the relationship between splenectomy and overwhelming infection is discussed. As a result of these acute deaths in 4 of 62 children undergoing renal transplantation at this institution (6.4%), splenectomy in conjunction with renal transplantation in children has been discontinued.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Splenectomy
/
Kidney Transplantation
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
/
Child
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Female
/
Humans
/
Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Surgery
Year:
1977
Type:
Article