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Staphylococcus aureus abscess of the spleen in a beta-thalassemia patient
Athanasios Aessopos1, Marianna Politou, Dimitrios Farmakis
1First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Laiko General Hospital, Greece.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|August 6, 2002
Abstract:
Splenic abscesses are rare among abdominal abscesses. We present a case of splenic abscess due to Staphylococcus aureus in a beta-thalassemia major patient. Such a complication may not be coincidental, as beta-thalassemia major patients have an increased susceptibility to infection, which is attributable to a number of immune abnormalities.