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UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK
Has an information leaflet called Preventing Infection after Splenectomy or if you do not have a Working Spleen.
Splenectomy: information for patients and patient card
Information from the Department of Health which includes a card that you can download and carry to alert healthcare professionals to your condition.
Splenectomy
Information from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.
Splenectomy and the risk of infection for Hodgkin Lymphoma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients
Information from the Lymphoma Association.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.