trauma

Asplenia?

Condition of not having a spleen. Either due to trauma or some other disease.

People without a spleen (asplenic people) are at risk for certain types of infections (overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI)) that can become very serious.

Asplenic individuals should always recieve pneumococcus, haemophilus influenzae, and meningococcus vaccines.

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