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What Causes Liver And Spleen Enlargement With Sickness?

My husband was exposed to a large amount of mold cleaning a duct, now he is sick about a week after doing that. Dr s keep saying he has acute bronchitis. Now his liver and spleen are enlarged found out when they did a ct scan of his lungs and that showed no fluid in his lungs. Can t seem to get the doctors to explore this possibility but they can not give any other explanation.
Wed, 17 Dec 2014
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Dear spleen is a reticulo endothelial organ.and it has few important function one is synthesis of antibodies and removal of antibody coated bacteria from the circulation . So increase in these function that happens in sickness may result in splenomegaly same thing is with liver liver also has cells that act as part of reticulo endothelial system so there will be some enlargement of liver whenever there is any infection in body.and as the infection will resolve it will be become normal again in size..so we can say it's bodies normal response against infection . No need to worry about that if they have mentioned only hepatosplenomegaly only.hope this will help.
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What Causes Liver And Spleen Enlargement With Sickness?

Dear spleen is a reticulo endothelial organ.and it has few important function one is synthesis of antibodies and removal of antibody coated bacteria from the circulation . So increase in these function that happens in sickness may result in splenomegaly same thing is with liver liver also has cells that act as part of reticulo endothelial system so there will be some enlargement of liver whenever there is any infection in body.and as the infection will resolve it will be become normal again in size..so we can say it s bodies normal response against infection . No need to worry about that if they have mentioned only hepatosplenomegaly only.hope this will help.