A 69-year-old man presented at our Department of Neurology in December 2016 with acute aphasia. His medical history was notable of splenectomy after a spleen rupture due to a car accident at the age ...

What is of great interest is the long time interval (range 2–35 years) between the splenectomy in the patients studied by Jaïs et al 2 and the development of thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Xin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Here, we aim to transform the spleen into a liver-like organ via directly reprogramming the splenic fibroblasts into hepatocytes in vivo. Design In the mouse spleen, the number of fibroblasts was ...

Objective Whether splenectomy increases the risk of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the association ...

The spleen is a lymphoid organ that filters the ... and impaired recovery from induced acute anemia in young mice, and led to severe anemia in older mice. Cyster and colleagues show that CD97 ...