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Background. - Effectiveness of subtotal splenectomy, a procedure recently advocated as an alternative treatment to total splenectomy for patients with hereditary spherocytosis (HS), has been evaluated.Methods and patients. - Eighty-eight patients (74 children) with HS were included in this series. Clinical presentations ranged from asymptomatic cases to severe transfusion-dependent forms. Stunting...
Hematological changes are uncommon in childhood sarcoidosis.Case 1. This patient developed severe hemolytic anemia associated with splenomegaly at the age of 11 months. A second episode of hemolysis was seen at the age of 6 years; it was associated with thrombocytopenia and hypogammaglobulinemia. A partial splenectomy permitted histological diagnosis of sarcoidosis that was confirmed by elevated angiotensin-converting...
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