https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/24761/splenectomy-and-antibiotics Having just watched &quot;An hour to save your life&quot; on BBC2, there was a mention at the end of a splenectomy patient having to take antibiotics for life. We have a relation who had her spleen removed after a ridling accident a few years ago and she alsoen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/164703?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:14:53 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:33e91d8b-2426-4cf5-b21d-f6e31ffcd5dfBraden Collins<p>http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2010/june/postsplenectomy-infection-%E2%80%93-strategies-for-prevention-in-general-practice/</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/164697?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:21:23 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f3dd7404-1186-4fcd-835e-7f481269cfceHannah Wynne Richards<p>&nbsp;I know of a farmer&#39;s wife who had her spleen removed due to hydatid disease. She wasn&#39;t put on long-term antibiotics, but years later needed open heart surgery due to faulty valves I don&#39;t put splenectomised patients on long term antibiotics, but reading this thread made me wonder whether the valve damage was coincidence or not. Not something I&#39;d thought before reading this.</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/164691?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:32:51 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1765bb83-eb0a-484f-b47a-838e7fadcc99grumpyoldman<p>Malaria ?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>