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Ahmet Korkut Belli1, Cem Dönmez, Önder Özcan
1Department of General Surgery, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Medicine, Muğla-Turkey. ahmetbelli@gmail.com.
Background:
The occurrence of a serious infection called overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) increases more than 50 times in patients who have hyposplenia. The aim of this study was to investigate the adherence to vaccination recommendations after traumatic splenic injury.
Methods:
We identified patients who underwent total splenectomy due to abdominal trauma between May 2012 and March 2016. We recorded the clinical, laboratory, and pathological features of the patients. We calculated the vaccination proportions before discharge, after discharge, and final.
Results:
Twenty-seven patients underwent total splenectomy. For the vaccination status before discharge, after discharge, and final, the number of patients who received all the three vaccinations were 0 (0%), 0 (0%), and 8 (18.5%) and those who received none were 13 (48.2%), 11 (40.8%), and 9 (33.4%), respectively. The data of 17 patients were available for developing OPSI. The median follow-up time was 17.8 (4.4-41.2) months, and no OPSI cases were observed.
Conclusion:
Adherence to vaccination recommendations remains still low. Establishing a vaccination tracking system and following vaccination recommendations will be helpful to prevent serious infections, such as OPSI, after traumatic splenectomy.
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