EDITOR, - Mary McMullin and George Johnston's editorial contributes little to a comprehensive strategy to prevent sepsis after splenectomy.1 It merely reiterates current recommendations and contains important omissions. Overwhelming infection after splenectomy is a specific syndrome with a high mortality and should be distinguished from other infections after splenectomy. The alarmingly high incidence claimed for the condition has since been corrected2; in the study from which the corrected figure (6.9%) comes half of the deaths related to infection occurred within three months of operation and two fifths …