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Case Reports
. 1991 May 24;69(8):375-8.
doi: 10.1007/BF02115789.

[Fatal infection after splenectomy despite reimplantation of splenic tissue]

[Article in German]
S Michalski  1 , P Blankenhorn, G Lepsien, F E Lüdtke
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Case Reports

[Fatal infection after splenectomy despite reimplantation of splenic tissue]

[Article in German]
S Michalski et al. Klin Wochenschr. .

Abstract

A fatal case of a postsplenectomy sepsis is presented which occurred in a 5-year-old boy 11 month following splenectomy due to trauma and reimplantation of splenic tissue. The patient died 4 h after admission to the hospital. The post mortem revealed an encephalitis and a sepsis although splenic regenerates were found in the omentum pouch. Our report increases the number of cases described to date in the literature to a total of 18. Autologous reimplantation of splenic tissue does not offer complete protection against over-whelming infection.

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