Effect of splenectomy on circulating blood. II. Haemolytic anaemia produced by splenectomy

Abstract
Splenectomized animáis develop anaemia with a high rate of mortality. The anaemia is of the hemolytic tipe and seems to be more severe by a bartonelliasis, -which is reactivated because of the splenectomy. This fact seems to corrobórate the opinión sustained by several authors on a possible crucial role of the spleen in the self-depense of the body against infections, in a similar way as in early infancy.
Keywords:
Splenectomy, Anemia, Animals, Bartonella Infections/blood/complications, Bilirubin/blood, Hemolytic/blood/etiology, Iron/blood, Rats, Reticulocytes, Spleen/physiology, Time Factors
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