The spleen and sickle cell disease: the sick(led) spleen

Venous Thromboembolism in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: A Serious and Under-recognized Complication

(2013) Rakhi P. Naik et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Preserved antibody levels and loss of memory B cells against pneumococcus and tetanus after splenectomy: Tailoring better vaccination strategies

(2013) M. Manuela Rosado et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Among Children With and Without Sickle Cell Disease in the United States, 1998 to 2009

(2013) Amanda B. Payne et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Acute splenic sequestration crisis in sickle cell disease: cohort study of 190 paediatric patients

(2012) Valentine Brousse et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY

Critical illness from 2009 pandemic influenza A virus and bacterial coinfection in the United States*

(2012) Todd W. Rice et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Innate Immune Functions of Macrophage Subpopulations in the Spleen

(2012) Joke M.M. den Haan et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Abdominal Ultrasound With Scintigraphic and Clinical Correlates in Infants With Sickle Cell Anemia: Baseline Data From the BABY HUG Trial

(2011) M. Beth McCarville et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY

Biomarkers of splenic function in infants with sickle cell anemia: baseline data from the BABY HUG Trial

(2011) Z. R. Rogers et al.   BLOOD

Mortality and causes of death in children with sickle cell disease in the Netherlands, before the introduction of neonatal screening

(2011) Evelyn M. van der Plas et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY

Composition and significance of splenic Gamna-Gandy bodies in sickle cell anemia

(2011) Andrea Piccin et al.   HUMAN PATHOLOGY

Hydroxycarbamide in very young children with sickle-cell anaemia: a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial (BABY HUG)

(2011) Winfred C Wang et al.   LANCET

Post-splenectomy and hyposplenic states

(2011) Antonio Di Sabatino et al.   LANCET

A Hemodynamic Study of Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease

(2011) Florence Parent et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Splenectomy Associated Changes in IgM Memory B Cells in an Adult Spleen Registry Cohort

(2011) Paul U. Cameron et al.   PLoS One

High mortality from Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children living with sickle cell anemia on the coast of Kenya

(2010) C. F. McAuley et al.   BLOOD

Improved survival of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease

(2010) C. T. Quinn et al.   BLOOD

The sensing of poorly deformable red blood cells by the human spleen can be mimicked in vitro

(2010) G. Deplaine et al.   BLOOD

Infections of People with Complement Deficiencies and Patients Who Have Undergone Splenectomy

(2010) S. Ram et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Increase in Invasive Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infections in Children with Sickle Cell Disease since Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Licensure

(2010) Timothy L. McCavit et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Clinical events after surgical splenectomy in children with sickle cell anemia

(2010) Ram Kalpatthi et al.   PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with sickle-cell and autoimmune/connective tissue diseases

(2010) Salam Alkindi et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Vasculopathy in sickle cell disease: Biology, pathophysiology, genetics, translational medicine, and new research directions

(2009) Gregory J. Kato et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY

Vascular complications after splenectomy for hematologic disorders

(2009) S. E. Crary et al.   BLOOD

Malaria in patients with sickle cell anemia: burden, risk factors, and outcome at the outpatient clinic and during hospitalization

(2009) J. Makani et al.   BLOOD

An observational study of children with sickle cell disease in Kilifi, Kenya

(2009) Manish Sadarangani et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY

Malaria as a Cause of Morbidity and Mortality in Children with Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease on the Coast of Kenya

(2009) Albert N. Komba et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Outcome of splenectomy in children younger than 4 years with sickle cell disease

(2009) Aaron P. Lesher et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Pathological rupture of the spleen in malaria: Analysis of 55 cases (1958–2008)

(2009) Patrick Imbert et al.   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Retention of Plasmodium falciparum ring-infected erythrocytes in the slow, open microcirculation of the human spleen

(2008) I. Safeukui et al.   BLOOD

Increased procoagulant cell-derived microparticles (C-MP) in splenectomized patients with ITP

(2008) V. Fontana et al.   THROMBOSIS RESEARCH