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Recommended Vaccinations for Asplenic Patients - Before and After Splenectomy

#Management #Asplenic #Asplenia #Vaccinations #PrimaryCare #Vaccines #Splenectomy
Vaccinations for Asplenic ... Patients - Before and After ... #Management #Asplenic ... #Asplenia #Vaccinations
Post-splenectomy blood smear demonstrating Howell-Jolly bodies and target cells.

#Clinical #Pathology #BloodSmear #HowellJollyBodies #TargetCells #Splenectomy #Asplenic
demonstrating Howell-Jolly ... #Splenectomy #Asplenic
Howell-Jolly Body - On these Wright-stained peripheral blood smears the small dark spheres within red cells
Howell-Jolly Body ... cells are Howell-Jolly ... in congenital asplenia ... , after surgical ... #Asplenia
Common RBC Inclusions and Associations
 • Howell Jolly Bodies: Hyposplenism, Asplenism, Severe hemolytic anemia
 • Heinz
Associations • Howell Jolly ... Hyposplenism, Asplenism
Etiology of Splenic Infarction:
 • Hypercoagulability: Factor V Leiden, Antiphospholipid syndrome, Malignancy
 • Embolic disease: Atrial
Etiology of Splenic ... cell disease • Splenic ... artery aneurysm ... , Splenic artery ... compression • Splenic
Asplenia Management
 • Key Pathogens: H. influenzae type b, Neisseria meningitidis, Capnocytophaga spp, Malaria, Babesia
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Asplenia Management ... febrilepodcast #asplenic ... #Asplenia #Management
Celiac Artery Trunk Anatomy - Arterial Branches
1) Common Hepatic Artery
2) Splenic Artery
3) Left Gastric Artery

By @rev.med

#Celiac
Celiac Artery Trunk ... Common Hepatic Artery ... 2) Splenic Artery ... ) Left Gastric Artery ... rev.med #Celiac #Artery
Sickle cell anemia and Howell Jolly bodies (nuclear remnants).

 - Dr. Abubaker Elshaikh
@ElshaikhMD

#SickleCell #HowellJolly #Body #Bodies
anemia and Howell Jolly
Key Pathogens to Consider in Asplenia
 - Encapsulated bacteria
    • S. pneumoniae
to Consider in Asplenia ... Bordetella holmesii #Asplenia
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
bodies, Howell-Jolly