Splenectomy in Blood Dyscrasias

THIS communication presents the results of splenectomy performed in patients with various blood dyscrasias who have been followed in the Blood Clinic of the New England Medical Center during the past ten years (July 1, 1939, through June 30, 1949). In the greater number of these patients, splenectomy was performed for congenital hemolytic anemia and primary thrombocytopenic purpura, and the results represent examples of the well established value of this operation. In some patients splenectomy was performed for other, less well defined conditions, and in others the indications for splenectomy might be called unusual or experimental. To determine the effect . . .