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Asplenia diagnostic study of choice

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kalpana Giri, MBBS [2]

Overview

Overview

Spleen scintigraphy is the gold standard test for the diagnosis of asplenia.

Diagnostic Study of Choice

Diagnostic Study of Choice

Study of choice

Spleen scintigraphy, with the use of Technetium-99m-labelled heat-damaged autologous erythrocyte clearance is the gold standard test for the diagnosis of asplenia.^[1]

Diagnostic finding

Measures spleen function
Measures splenic uptake and clearance of heat-damaged erythrocytes

Name of Diagnostic Criteria

There are no established criteria for the diagnosis of asplenia.

References

References

↑ Di Sabatino A, Carsetti R, Corazza GR (2011). “Post-splenectomy and hyposplenic states”. Lancet. 378 (9785): 86–97. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61493-6. PMID 21474172.

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