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Query: UMLS:C0348321 (
Haemophilus
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
We report a patient with
Cat eye syndrome
(
CES
) associated with anatomical asplenia. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no prior reports of this association. Screening for asplenia in
CES
is potentially important, as asplenia places patients at increased risk for life-threatening bacterial infections. Hence patients with
CES
without a spleen may require the same routine precautions as any other asplenic patients, with penicillin prophylaxis and immunizations to protect against encapsulated organisms such as Streptococcus pneumoniae,
Haemophilus
influenzae type b, and Neisseria meningitidis.
...
PMID:Anatomical asplenia in cat eye syndrome: an expansion of the disease spectrum. 2369 3
