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asplenia

Synopsis

- recurrent invasive bacterial infections
- Howell-Jolly bodies in the blood smear
- relative with congenital isolated asplenia.

Etiology

- isolated asplenia

  • isolated congenital asplenia
  • vanishing spleen and hyposplenism

- syndromic asplenia

  • asplenia with situs ambiguus (heterotaxia)
    • asplenia/polysplenia syndrome (Ivemark syndrome) (MIM.208530)
  • deleted ring chromosome 4 (#8933346#)

Associations

- cardiovascular malformations

  • dextrocardia (#11105625#)
  • transposition of the great vessels (TGV) (#11105625#)
  • stenosis of the pulmonary artery (#11105625#)
  • common atrioventricular canal (CAVC) (#11105625#)
  • patent ductus arteriosus (#11105625#)

- situs anomalies (heterotaxy)
- renal dysplasia

  • cystic dilated collecting ducts of the kidney (#11105625#)

- cystic dilated collecting ducts of the kidney (#11105625#)

- hepatopancreaticorenal dysplasia

  • Crawfurd syndrome (hepatopancreaticorenal dysplasia with asplenia)