my uncle had a heart attack in 1982 and
since then he used to take aspirin along
with necessary medicines. However, on
october 2004 he had a sever blood
hemorrhage at his stomach wall and he was
given 6 units of blood. Also, the medical
diagnostic was telling that aspirin is the
main reason of the stomach hemorrhage and
therefore the aspirin type was changed.
However, a new problem has risen during
his recovery period at the hospital which
is decreased numbers of platelets where
all the past tests of platelets count were
in the normal range. Also, the platelets
count has reached 20,000 /mm3 and he was
given a solution through his arm that
increased his platelets to around
150,000/mm3. As result, the following
possible causes were reviewed:
- cancer
- bone marrow
- blood film
- red spots under the skin
and all of these causes have given normal
results. Nowadays, his platelets count is
around 77,000/mm3 and his doctors are
feeling that they should take his spleen
away when the platelets count is reaching
an alarming level.
I want to know if there are any other
tests that we can do to confirm this
and/or determine the root causes before
taking the decision of removing his
spleen.
