Power

Power's disease overview

What is

What is spleen?

Spleen is an important organ in the body, keeping the function of producing blood cells during the fetus. In addition, the spleen is also a place to destroy the old red blood cells, produce macrophages and immunity, creating antibodies to prevent infection.

Spleen is a syndrome caused by the enlarging of the spleen and the decline in blood cells including red blood cells and leukocytes. Spleen has the following characteristics:

  • Blood cells per line or all three lines are reduced

    • Bone marrow increases or normal.

  • Spleen.
  • The disease will cure when cutting off.

    • Causes of Power's disease

    Causes of spleen power are often blood diseases, liver and portal disease and can also be from the cause of the infection because the function of the spleen is the control of hematoma and Playing in the portal vein system.

    The causes of spleen are mainly:

  • Blood cancer, lymphoma.

    • congenital hemolysis

    Platelet hemorrhage.

  • Riputatemosis due to spleen.
  • Diseases reduced all three lines of blood cells due to spleen.
  • Hodgkin disease

    • Banti syndrome

    Infections such as tuberculosis, malaria, blood infections ...

    Symptoms of Power's disease

    Spleen symptoms include:

  • Feeling full of prematurements even though eating very little.
  • Feeling flatulence.
  • Pain in the left lower side, can spread to the left shoulder.
    • high fever.
  • Weak, fatigue, pale.
  • Nervous, brushing chest drums.
  • Spleen.
  • easily bruised, bleeding.
  • Reading, legs and feet.
  • Anemia

    • People at risk for Power's disease

  • The risk factor for spleen is:
  • Children or young people infected

    • People with genetic diseases related to spleen such as gaucher disease, niemann-pick.

  • People who go to malaria area.

    • Prevention of Power's disease

    Because the cause of the disease is very diverse, there is almost no specific preventive measures.

    Need to limit drinking, exercise regularly and have a healthy diet will help limit the common risks leading to spleen.

    Diagnostic measures for Power's disease

    In addition to clinical symptoms, tests and techniques are needed to spleen diagnosis :

  • Blood test: Assessing the number of blood cells red blood cells, leukocytes, platelets.

    • Abdominal ultrasound and computerized tomography: Determine the spleen, the size of the spleen and evaluate the pinch of spleen on the surrounding organs.

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging: evaluating blood flow through spleen.

    • Other tests: liver function, blood marrow, bone marrow biopsy to find the cause of spleen.

    Power's disease treatments

    Spleen treatment is treatment according to the cause of the disease. Two common treatments are medical treatment and spleen surgery:

  • Medical treatment:

    • Medical treatment is applied to mild spleen. If the spleen is due to the cause of the infection, the patient will be assigned to use the appropriate antibiotic.

  • Spleen surgery:

    • This is the method that is carried out when the cause of the disease is not found or in patients with prolonged symptoms when treated. Spleen surgery is indicated for patients with spleen when the spleen enlarges and even when the spleen is not enlarged. This method will limit the decrease in blood cells in the body.

    In cases of spleen, causing serious complications, or chronic, critical diseases, spleen surgery is considered the most effective method.

    Note after spleen cutting is that the patient will be more susceptible to infection. Therefore, to minimize the risk of this infection, we need:

  • vaccinated before and after surgery such as vaccines of pneumococcal, meningococcal brain, hib. /p>
  • If there is a fever, it is necessary to go to a medical facility to promptly monitor and handle.

    • Restricted to places where epidemic places or places are more likely to cause infections.

    See also:

  • Spleen trauma: Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment Li>
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