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Abstract
Four renal allograft recipients between 8 and 14 years of age died of acute fulminating
infections less than 72 hours after the onset of symptoms. These patients all had
undergone splenectomy at the time of related donor renal transplantation. Because
the therapeutic value of splenectomy in renal transplantation has not been established,
the role of adjunctive splenectomy is evaluated, and the relationship between splenectomy
and overwhelming infection is discussed. As a result of these acute deaths in 4 of
62 children undergoing renal transplantation at this institution (6.4%), splenectomy
in conjunction with renal transplantation in children has been discontinued.
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☆Presented at the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., March 3–5, 1977.
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