Incidentally detected asplenia in a healthy 64-year-old female live kidney donor

Authors :: Leoniek D. Wolff
Jacqueline vd Wetering
Mijntje N. Nijboer
Frank J. M. F. Dor
Internal Medicine
Source :: Oxford medical case reports, 2017(4), 47-49. Oxford University Press, Oxford Medical Case Reports, 47-49. Oxford University Press, ISSUE=4;STARTPAGE=47;ENDPAGE=49;ISSN=2053-8855;TITLE=Oxford Medical Case Reports, Oxford Medical Case Reports
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Abstract: Heterotaxia syndromes are rare birth defects which can result in developmental malformations. A 64-year-old woman presented to the hospital for preoperative screening for kidney donation; during which she was found to have no gallbladder and no spleen, without any signs of surgical removal. This could be a new description of a heterotaxia syndrome.

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