Splenomegaly causes
Template:Splenomegaly Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Causes
Causes of Splenomegaly in Alphabetical Order
- AIDS
- Angioimmunoblastic lymphoanedopathy
- Angiosarcoma
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- Bacterial septicemia
- Bone marrow damage
- Bone marrow infiltration
- Brucellosis
- Castleman's syndrome
- Cavernous transformation of the portal vein
- Cellular infiltration
- Chronic myoletic leukemia
- Collagen vascular diseases
- Congestive heart failure
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Coronavirus
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae
- Cytomegalovirus
- Early sickle cell anemia
- Endocarditis
- Ehrlichiosis
- Eosinophillic granuloma
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
- Felty's syndrome
- Fever unknown origin
- Fibromas
- Fungal infections
- Gaucher's disease
- Hemangiomas
- Hamartomas
- Hemoglobinopathy
- Hemolytic anemia
- Hepatic echinococcosis
- Hepatic schistomasis
- Hepatic vein obstruction
- Hepatitis
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- Histiocytosis
- Histoplasmosis
- HIV
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hurler's syndrome
- Hyperlipidemias
- Idiopathic splenomegaly
- Immune hemolytic anemias
- Infective Endocarditis
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Interleukin-2
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Leishmaniasis
- Letterer-Siwe disease
- Leukemia
- Lymphangiomas
- Lymphoid leukemia
- Lympho-reticulosarcoma
- Malaria
- Malignancy
- Melanoma
- Myelofibrosis
- Myeloid leukemia
- Myeloid metaplasia
- Monocytic leukemia
- Mononucleosis
- Myobacterium avium complex
- Myoproliferative syndrome(s)
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Nutritional anemias
- Osteomyelosclerosis
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Polycythemia vera
- Portal hypertension
- Q fever
- Radiation
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- RMSF
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Serum sickness
- Sickle cell disease
- Splenic abscess
- Splenic artery anuerysm
- Splenic cysts
- Splenic hamartoma
- Splenic hemangioma
- Splenic vein obstruction/thrombosis
- Stillness disease
- Subacute bacterial endocarditis
- Syphillis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Tangier disease
- Thalassemia major
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trauma
- Trypanosomiasis
- Tuberculosis
- Tumors
- Typhoid fever
- Vein obstruction
- Viral hepatitis
- Weil's disease
- Less common causes [3]
References
- ↑ Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:77 ISBN 1591032016
- ↑ Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:68 ISBN 140510368X
- ↑ Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In a page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:157