The after effects of splenectomy is very commonly there is an injury to the tail of the pancreas because the tail of the pancreas is very close to the spleen, a s a result of which there can be pancreatic fistula or distal tail of the pancreas, pancreatitis. The other complications are immediately in the post operative period there may be torrential bleed, then you may have to go to the level of the abdomen and do a lavage and then take control of the bleeding. The other complication is basal atelecatasis and difficulty in breathing and basal pneumonia the other complication that can be seen is dilatation and a gastric fistula. If the stiches are applied very close to the fundus if the stomach in taking the short gastric vessels, the other complications that are very common it the other laparoscopic procedures are like injury to the small intestine or the large intestine and other possibility of infection possible after splenectomy called opsi, wherein the patient is known to develop some infections with encaspsulated organs such and pneumococcal and meningococcal. So they would have to be on pneumococcal and meningococcal vaccines, of course there is no need for the patient to panic in developing infections very soon. They need to seek attention with a physician or the operating surgeon as soon as the splenectomy, it is done and the patient develops fever or there is abdominal pain associated with fever there will a collection there or it could be an infection with the pneumococcal and the meningococcal vaccine.
