Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Br J Clin Pract, 1994 Sep-Oct;48(5):276-7.
PMID: 7917827

Abstract

A young patient presenting with splenomegaly and hypersplenism was inadvertently found to have selective IgA deficiency. There were no symptoms of immunodeficiency and the patient responded well to splenectomy, with return of blood counts to normal without adverse effects. No other cause for the hypersplenism was found. We postulate selective IgA deficiency as a cause of splenomegaly and hypersplenism.

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