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Asplenia MRI
Introduction
Overview
Overview
MR imaging may be helpful to define these structures in large patients or if overlying gas-filled bowel obscures the upper abdominal anatomy.
MRI
MRI
- Patients with asplenia are at greater risk of sepsis. MR imaging may be helpful to define these structures in large patients or if overlying gas-filled bowel obscures the upper abdominal anatomy.[1]
- MRI may be helpful in patient with Sepsis with concomitant osteoarthritis. MRI may revealed joint effusion and myositis without evidence of osteomyelitis.[2]
References
References
- ↑ Applegate KE, Goske MJ, Pierce G, Murphy D (1999). “Situs revisited: imaging of the heterotaxy syndrome”. Radiographics. 19 (4): 837–52, discussion 853-4. doi:10.1148/radiographics.19.4.g99jl31837. PMID 10464794.
- ↑ Albrecht T, Poss K, Issaranggoon Na Ayuthaya S, Triden L, Schleiss KL, Schleiss MR (2019). “Case report of congenital asplenia presenting with Haemophilus influenzae type a (Hia) sepsis: an emerging pediatric infection in Minnesota”. BMC Infect Dis. 19 (1): 947. doi:10.1186/s12879-019-4572-4. PMC 6842177 Check
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