A Minnesota woman has filed a lawsuit that alleges her surgeon removed her kidney, and not her spleen, in 2022, leaving her with significant health issues According to the lawsuit documents, Wendy ...

In a similar Orange County, California case in 2017, a Santa Ana urologist was barred from further kidney operations after removing a patient’s spleen instead of a kidney, according to The LAist.

MINNEAPOLIS — A Twin Cities woman is suing over an alleged medical mistake that she says cost her a healthy left kidney.In a lawsuit filed Friday, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the surgeon ...

Such a systems biology study of heart-spleen and heart-kidney networks, also known as the cardiosplenic and cardiorenal networks, will be essential to developing novel treatments for chronic heart ...

ACTUALIZADO julio 11, 2022 2:17 p. m. A Fresno woman is seeking monetary damages after a doctor removed her spleen instead of a diseased kidney, a mistake that left a pathologist “astonished ...

In a similar Orange County, California case in 2017, a Santa Ana urologist was barred from further kidney operations after removing a patient’s spleen instead of a kidney, according to The LAist.

The spleen, which is 4 inches long and sits in the upper abdomen, acts as a reservoir of immune cells that speed to the site of heart injury after a heart attack to begin clearance of damaged tissue.

In a similar Orange County, California case in 2017, a Santa Ana urologist was barred from further kidney operations after removing a patient’s spleen instead of a kidney, according to The LAist.