Anatom3DWhite pulp
Pulpa alba · Bílá pulpa sleziny
Lymphatic & immune
Looks like
Tiny white islands of lymphoid tissue around the small arteries of the spleen.
What it does
Filters the blood for germs and makes antibodies, especially against encapsulated bacteria.
Keeping it well
Without a working spleen, pneumococcal and other vaccines and prompt antibiotics for fever are essential.
Related conditions
- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
- Brucellosis
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Essential thrombocythaemia
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Lymphoma (Hodgkin & non-Hodgkin)
- Malaria
- Myelofibrosis
- Polycythaemia vera
- Portal vein thrombosis and Budd–Chiari syndrome
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassaemia