What does the spleen have to do with sickle cell disease? In sickle cell anemia, the spleen is not able to remove bacteria growing in the bloodstream. Every day, billions of red blood cells pass ...

Researchers have identified the defective gene responsible for a rare disorder in which children are born without a spleen, which makes them susceptible to life-threatening bacterial infections. The ...

While liver stiffness measurement by vibration-controlled transient elastography with a 25 kPa threshold might detect CSPH, the overall low quality of the studies means that these results are not very ...

Every day, billions of red blood cells pass through the spleen, an organ that is responsible for filtering out old or damaged blood cells. This task is made more difficult when the blood cells are ...

Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) demonstrated strong predictive accuracy for liver decompensation in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD), with an optimal cutoff of 50 ...

The research suggests there are more people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never develop the disease but could still infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations Prion diseases such ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers said they have identified a new “hidden” life cycle of malaria parasites in the human spleen — a ...

Genetic diseases caused by mutations in single genes have long been the darling of gene therapy efforts. In a twist on this theme, a team from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) has ...

Infection of tissues outside the nervous system occurs in a number of prion diseases, but sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans has not been considered one of them. A clinical study of Swiss ...

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School offers a new view of how the immune system responds to organ ...