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The spleens of 49 patients who had undergone allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for leukemia were compared at autopsy to determine the pathological changes associated with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The only significant finding was an increase in weight of about 1.7 times that of spleens from patients without GVHD. This was not explained by differences in the patients' sex, length of survival after transplantation, presence of infection, or liver pathology. On histological examination, there was no detectable increase in congestion, siderosis, or numbers of lymphocytes, macrophages, antigen-presenting cells, blast cells, pyknotic cells, plasma cells, or hemopoietic cells to explain the increase in spleen weight. On the contrary, there was actually a reduction in CD8+ T lymphocytes. No proliferative phase of GVHD could be identified, possibly due to a lack of specimens examined less than 8 days after transplantation and to prophylactic measures undertaken to minimize GVHD. The pathogenesis of splenomegaly in human GVHD is unclear.
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PMID:Enlargement of the human spleen in graft-versus-host disease. 328 55

After remittent fever for several weeks a two-year old girl developed a severe hypochromic microcytic anaemia, rapidly increasing splenomegaly and extensive leftsided pleural effusions. After splenectomy the girl recovered very fast. Elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate, sideropenia and microcytosis needed several months for normalisation. Histopathological examination of the enlarged spleen (weight 530 g) and regional lymph nodes revealed a marked granulomatous histiocytotic proliferation with erythrophagocytosis and siderosis. Considering morphological and clinical aspects the association of the reported case with histocytosis X seems to be justified.
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PMID:[Granulomatous histiocytotic proliferation in the spleen of a two-year old girl (author's transl)]. 611 87

Because Berkeley sickle cell mice are used as an animal model for human sickle cell disease, we investigated the progression of the histopathology in these animals over 6 months and compared these findings to those published in humans with sickle cell disease. The murine study groups were composed of wild-type mixed C57Bl/6-SV129 (control) mice and sickle cell (SS) mice (alpha-/-, beta-/-, transgene +) of both sexes and between 1 and 6 months of age. SS mice were similar to humans with sickle cell disease in having erythrocytic sickling, vascular ectasia, intravascular hemolysis, exuberant hematopoiesis, cardiomegaly, glomerulosclerosis, visceral congestion, hemorrhages, multiorgan infarcts, pyknotic neurons, and progressive siderosis. Cerebral perfusion studies demonstrated increased blood-brain barrier permeability in SS mice. SS mice differed from humans with sickle cell disease in having splenomegaly, splenic hematopoiesis, more severe hepatic infarcts, less severe pulmonary manifestations, no significant vascular intimal hyperplasia, and only a trend toward vascular medial hypertrophy. Early retinal degeneration caused by a homozygous mutation (rd1) independent from that causing sickle hemoglobin was an incidental finding in some Berkeley mice. While our study reinforces the fundamental strength of this model, the notable differences warrant careful consideration when drawing parallels to human sickle cell disease.
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PMID:Pathology of Berkeley sickle cell mice: similarities and differences with human sickle cell disease. 1659 2

A 59-year-old male, was admitted to our hospital for a tumor of the pancreatic tail. Serum CEA and CA 19-9 levels were normal. Splenopancreasectomy found a desmoid tumour. A 69-year-old male was referred to our institution for chronic anemia and inflammatory syndrome with splenomegaly. Splenectomy showed an important splenic congestion and siderosis. Both patients had a type 2 diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, histological examination revealed pancreatic endocrine microadenomas. The two patients' postoperative course was unremarkable. Eleven and 24 months respectively after the diagnosis, the patients are alive and well, with no tumor recurrence.
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PMID:[Two cases reports of pancreatic endocrine microadenoma incidentally found]. 2433 23