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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by shakna on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:12PM (#13181438)
How common without serious abdominal trauma? I didn't bruise, tear any muscles or crack any ribs or anything of the like. That kind of stat might give me something to brag about, not like a crappy immune system is something to be proud of.

The grading system is kinda cool. Unfortunately I can't use behind my current WiFi away from home. Maybe you can tell me how I did: The spleen was horizontally rupture into two pieces.

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by JshWright on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:29PM (#13181548)
It's not that uncommon to have little to no bruising. One of the more common signs is actually pain in the left shoulder[1]

As far as the grading of your spleen... It depends on whether the major vessels leading into the spleen were torn or not, but it certainly sounds like you had a grade 4 or 5 tear (on a scale of 1 to 5).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehr's_sign

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by shakna on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:37PM (#13181587)
That's really interesting, aren't nerves wonderful things?

4 or 5 sounds about right, I lost something around 2 quarts of blood, though that may have more been due to inaction.

All I remember from the ultrasound was thinking the red was really pretty, and then vomiting.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it's fascinating stuff.

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by JshWright on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:18PM (#13182112)
Two quarts is getting very close to irreversible shock territory, so nice job not dying.

EDIT: Upon rereading... If you were in primary school, then two quarts would represent a very large fraction of your total blood volume (like, anywhere from 70 to 120%). You'd be very firmly in 'dead' territory at that point (assuming they weren't simultaneously putting more in)

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