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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Splenomegaly: causes Mnemonic

HICCUPS:

Haematological
Infective : Kala azar, malaria, enteric fever
Congestive: CCF, constrictive pericarditis, IVC thrombosis, Hepatic vein thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis and splenic vein thrombosis
Collagen diseases: SLE, Felty's syndrome
Unknown etiology: tropical splenomegaly
Primary malignacies (secondaries are rare)
Storage diseases: Gaucher's disease, Niemman Pick

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