Thread: Splenectomy
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Old Wed Jun 6, 2007, 09:47 AM
Marlene Marlene is offline
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I don't know if it would buy you that much and it is major sugery. I have read where people have done this and saw very short lived improvement. Unless your spleen is diseased, I would hang on to it. This is just my opinion.

I would need to see some pretty solid statistics on this approach.

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