Myelofibrosis | Myelofibrosis Symptoms, Diagnosis & Myelofibrosis Treatment

5) Surgery

Surgery is not a line of treatment of myelofibrosis itself, but it can be a line of therapy for the enlarged spleen. The reason why we remove the spleen is that it can cause hypersplenism. Its removal can cause a dramatic improvement of cellular deficiencies. The second situation is when the spleen is so large that it produces a dragging pain and a feeling of heaviness that sometimes becomes unbearable.