METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF CLINICAL COURSE OF ATROPHIC ANAEMIA FOLLOWING SPLENECTOMY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: splenectomy is followed by determining its weight, carrying out morphometric measurements of an average area of the white pulp of the lymphoid organ in histological sections stained by haematoxylin and eosin. These values are taken into account to calculate a mass of the white pulp by formula: m=m_spleen×D%/100%, wherein m is the mass of the white pulp (g), m_spleen is the total mass of the spleen (g), D is the average area of the white pulp, %. If the calculated value is ≤8.4 g, the favourable prognosis for atrophic anaemia is established, and if the value is >8.4 g, the unfavourable prognosis of the disease is stated.

EFFECT: method enables the differentiated determination of the indications for treating patients with atrophic anaemia following splenectomy.

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