Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia: a rare cause of ascites

ABSTRACT

A 65-year-old woman diagnosed with agnogenic myeloid metaplasia [AMM] was referred to our hospital due to complaints of ascites that developed two months after a splenectomy. The patient had massive ascites with a serumascites albumin gradient of 1.5. The ascites was transudative, assumed to have developed from peritoneal hematopoiesis during the course of portal hypertension that itself developed after splenectomy. To the best of our knowledge, no report in the literature has described a case diagnosed as AMM with ascites after splenectomy. Thus this report is the first case of AMM with ascites that developed two months after splenectomy