overwhelming postsplenectomy infection(English)

• a serious disease that can progress from a mild flu-like illness to fulminant sepsis in a short time period. However, recognition and clinical management is not well established. The spleen has an abundance of lymphoid tissue, including splenic macrophages that attack encapsulated organisms. Patients who are asplenic or hyposplenic are at an increased risk for infection and death from encapsulated organisms and other dangerous pathogens
• Spleen, Surgery, Bacteriology, Infection, Sepsis
• https://doi.org…jsu.2014.11.005