What are the splenic complications of sickle cell anaemia?

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I do know some but I am not sure if they are anymore.
-Hyposplenism
-Acute Splenic sequestration crises
repeated spleenic infarctions and resulting in auto spleenectomy within first few years of life,the infarctions kill the spleen  (+ info)

What is the connection between malignant neoplasms and crabs?

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The more common term for malignant neoplasms, cancer, is Latin for crab, and the word "carcinogen," meaning a cancer-causing agent, comes from the Greek word for crab, "karkinos." What is the connection between these two seemingly unrelated things?
Cancer, both the disease and the astronomical constellation, derive from the Latin cancer or cancrum, meaning crab. The astrological sign, of course, is said to resemble a crab and the disease was so named by the ancient Greek physician Galen (129-200 A.D.) who noted the similarity between a certain type of tumor with a crab as well—the swollen veins around the tumor resembling the legs of a crab.

Old English adopted cancer directly from Latin and used it for a variety of spreading sores and ulcers. This early sense survives in the modern word canker. From c.1000 in a manuscript called Læce Boc (Leech Book), collected in Oswald Cockayne’s Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, Vol. II, 1865:

Gemeng wið þam dustum, clæm on ðone cancer.
(Mix with the dust, smear on the cancer.)

And from Wyclif’s 2 Timothy, 1382:

The word of hem crepith as a kankir

The word was being applied specifically to the disease we today call cancer by the beginning of the 17th century. From Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s Historie of the World:

Cancer is a swelling or sore comming of melancholy bloud, about which the veins appeare of a blacke or swert colour, spread in manner of a Creifish clees.

The astronomical sense of cancer is from the Latin name for the constellation of the crab. The name was known to the Anglo-Saxons, but only as a Latin name and was not assimilated into English until the Middle English period. It appears in Ælfric’s De Temporibus Anni, written c.993, in a list of the constellations of the Zodiac:

Feorða • Cancer • þæt is Crabba
(Fourth, Cancer, that is the crab.)

The Anglicized name appears c.1391 in Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe:

In this heved of cancer is the grettist declinacioun northward of the sonne...this signe of cancre is clepid the tropik of Somer.
(At this first point (head) of cancer is the greatest declination northward of the sun…this sign of cancer is named the tropic of summer.)

(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)  (+ info)

What is the greatest danger of a splenic rupture?

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What is the greatest danger of a splenic rupture?
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What is the average survival rate for splenic rupture due to trauma?

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Like if you have Mono and your spleen is enlarged,you get hit in stomach,it ruptures and youre rushed to ER what is your chance of surviving?
I had a splenic artery anyeresum and the doctor told me I had to have it out immediately because left alone if it burst you'd bleed to death rather quickly. Letting a swollen spleen go could cost you your life....people die on the table before the doctor can even get them open in time so don't mess with it.

Take care! Kellie  (+ info)

What are splenic calcified granulomas?

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I had a CT of the Abdomen without and with contrast and the report states, "splenic calcified granulomas are present". What does this mean? Should I be worried?
The answer to this is basically the same one I gave you for your question about hepatic granulomas including the advice about follow up with your physician. Take this up with your doctor.  (+ info)

What is the basis of differing actions of antineoplastic agents on different tissue/neoplasms?

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What is the basis for differing tissue- and neoplasm-specificites of antieoplastic chemotherapeutic agents? This doubt arose because considering what the pharmacokinetics of these drugs are it remains to be answered as to why a certain agent would act only in a particular tissue or neoplasm when the mechanisms they employ are so similar, e.g., various alkylating agents in spite having same action act of different tumors with differing degrees of effectiveness. Hope someone answers the question specifically. Useful links to free-text articles would also be highly appreciated. Bye. TC.
If you have thoughts on this subject, you ought to have the initiative to research it yourself.  (+ info)

my mother aged 54 , has undergone through CT angiography test and diagonsed Splenic Artery Aneurysm?

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Two days back my mother aged 54 , has undergone through CT angiography test and diagonsed Splenic Artery Aneurysm.
She is having high blood pressure since last 3 years and taking medicins like Ecosprin,Alphadopa , Atocor and Metolar.

Could you please suggest me what are the possible options for the treatent and

could you please suggest specialist doctor for such treatment in Bangalore.
Being in the US, I can't help with a specialist in Bangalore.

The specialist she needs to see is a vascular surgeon. Depending on her exact anatomy, then the treatment options include:
1) waiting (if it's not too big)
2) open bypass (open the abdomen, bypass the aneurysm)
3) stent grafting (through the blood vessels)
4) embolization (closing through the artery)

Good luck.  (+ info)

Can I fly after a splenic aneurysm coiling?

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Yeah, it's 10 pm, just found out I needed it after going through ct scans and the like all day. Can't ask until morning.
I think it would be irresponsible for anyone but a doctor to answer this, and would probably be irresponsible and dangerous for you to take advice about this from anyone but a doctor.  (+ info)

what is meant by Hypo echoic well - defined lesion in splenic parenchymal?

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This is found in medical check report, Is it a deices?
infections, leukemia, and in tumors u will have such lesions.  (+ info)

What are the harmful effects from small benign neoplasms arising from endocrine organs on the patient?

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