moderate splenomegaly
Last reviewed 01/2018
The causes of moderate splenomegaly include:
- early stages of the diseases causing massive splenomegaly
- right heart failure
- portal hypertension:
- splenic/portal vein thrombosis
- hepatic cirrhosis
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- lymphoma
- lymphocytic leukaemias
- thalassaemias
- metabolic disease:
- Gaucher's disease
- Niemann-Pick disease
- mucopolysaccharidoses
- glycogen storage disease