Splenic Rupture: Complications

The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by splenic rupture (splenic rupture):

Blood, blood-forming organs – Immune system (D50-D90).

  • Susceptibility to infection (due tocondition after splenectomy (after surgical removal of the spleen)).
  • Thrombocytosis (pathological increase in blood platelets (thrombocytes)), passive/temporary occurrence (after surgical removal of the spleen)

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Pneumococcal infection (due tocondition after splenectomy (surgical removal of the spleen)).
  • Postsplenectomy syndrome (OPSI syndrome, English overwhelming postsplenectomy infection syndrome) – foudroyant sepsis (blood poisoning) that can occur after splenectomy (1-5% of cases).

Circulatory system (I00-I99)

  • Thromboembolism – sudden vascular occlusion due to a thrombus (blood clot) detached from the vessel wall (after surgical removal of the spleen).

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not classified elsewhere (R00-R99)

  • Intraabdominal hemorrhage (bleeding into the abdomen).
  • Shock due to hypovolemia (volume deficiency shock; in this case, hemorrhagic shock)

Injuries, poisonings, and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98).

  • Injury to pancreatic tail, stomach, colon (large intestine) as intraoperative complications of splenectomy