Assertion: splenectomy | /r/RelatedTo | impaired immunity
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text: By the mid-twentieth century, it was a therapy for idiopathic/immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP).2 Morris and Bullock in 1919 were the first to provide evidence that splenectomy was associated with increased number of infections and impaired immunity to fight infection by infecting non-splenectomized and splenectomized rodents with the bacillus of rat