[Changes in morbidity following traumatologically-induced splenectomy]

12 patients were followed up who had been splenectomised between 1978 and 1985 after traumatic injury of the spleen. Analysis of late morbidity after loss of the spleen was performed besides physical examination and a study of clinical pathology findings, the analysis being based on the individual anamnesis and history of previous diseases of each patient. It was not possible to establish a clear rise in general an infection-conditioned morbidity. We believe that the simple method of comparing preoperative and postoperative disease periods on the basis of the individual list of previous diseases represents a new objective parameter for assessing the late sequelae following splenectomy.