Should all splenectomised patients be vaccinated to avoid OPSI? Revisiting an old concept: An Italian retrospective monocentric study

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 82-83, 2008, Pages 308-310

  Di Carlo, Isidoro ^a   Primo, Stefano ^a   Pulvirenti, Elia ^a   Toro, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information; Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS POLYSACCHARIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 44349112374     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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