A Florida surgeon accused of removing a man's liver instead of his spleen during a surgery, causing the patient to bleed out on the operating table, has had his medical license suspended by the ...

He requested that the organ be labeled as spleen and sent to pathology. "The person responsible for labeling the specimen knew it was not a spleen but did as they were instructed," the report stated.

A Florida doctor who is accused of removing an Alabama man’s liver instead of the spleen, resulting in “immediate and catastrophic death,” had his medical license suspended.. In an emergency ...

Family of deceased Alabama man claims surgeon removed liver, not spleen, before his death The family of 70-year-old William Bryan claims surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky removed his liver and not his ...

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.

Next, the spleen was removed and sent to pathology, and the code was called about 20 minutes after the initial arrest, according to the report. The pathologist report, however, ...

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Once the procedure was complete, instead of removing Bryan's spleen as intended, his liver was removed, according to a surgical pathology report Zarzaur provided to USA TODAY. Start the day smarter.

Malaria, a disease caused mainly by the parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, is associated with over 400,000 deaths each year. Previously, the spleen was assumed to mostly play a ...

Beverly Bryan claims her late husband’s liver — and not his spleen — was removed at a Florida hospital. ... Is a grossly identifiable 2,106 g liver,” the surgical pathology report says.

Ganesh Halade, Ph.D. Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic leading to chronic heart failure pathology. About 6 million people in the United States and 23 million worldwide suffer ...