Sean Avery Lacerated Spleen

April 30, 2008: Ice Hockey star Sean Avery of the New York Rangers was hospitalized with a lacerated spleen. He acquired the injury during a second-round game loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The New York Rangers lost the game.

Initial reports suggested that Avery had suffered a cardiac arrest just hours after the Rangers lost the game.

Fast Facts

1. Spleen: located in abdomen
2. Function: destroys old red blood cells and holds a reservoir of blood
3. Lacerated spleen usually the result of blunt abdominal trauma
4. Lacerated spleen: the organ is compressed against the lower ribs
5. Result: partial tears in the organ

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