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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Surgery
In more severe cases that are unresponsive to treatment, it may become necessary to remove the spleen. The spleen is the organ that is responsible for removing the platelets and RBCs from circulation in the blood once they have been marked with the antibodies. A person can live a normal life without their spleen but, but is at increased risk for certain types of bacterial infections and pneumonia though. Current knowledge refutes the effiacy of splenectomy in Evans Syndrome: especially in adults with a median success rate of 1 month. Splenectomy is not really a cure.