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Open splenectomy has been performed for more than one hundred years. Since then, the safety of this procedure has increased dramatically. The mortality rate is less than 1 in 1000 if there are no complicating factors, such as unstable or severe heart disease. The overall complications of pneumonia, infection, hernia, bleeding, etc., occur in less than 5% of patients.
