Liver Disease

Spleen Enlargement Can Follow Liver Surgery

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, October 1st, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Patients who have been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis may be at a slightly higher risk for spleen enlargement (splenomegaly) and hypersplenism after liver surgery.

Doctors in Tokyo, Japan, who noticed this problem in one of their patients, have explored the relationship further and found a significant association between partial or total liver removal called hepatectomy, and spleen malfunction in patients with chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, or preoperative splenomegaly. Patients without the two liver problems do not appear to experience splenic disorders to the same extent, according to the doctors.

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