Thread: splenectomy?
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Old Thu Apr 19, 2012, 07:22 PM
Larsonec Larsonec is offline
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splenectomy?

anybody heard of removal of spleen for treatment of severe thrombocytopenia? A doc mentioned that to my father today as a possibility. My father is hospitalized with slightly enlarged liver and spleen. Platelets 6000, RBC=27. He is weak and short of breath most of the time.
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