Wandering spleen

Summary

Wandering spleen (MONDO:0042963) is a disease. A subtype of splenic disorder — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	wandering spleen
Mondo ID	MONDO:0042963
MeSH	D050805
NCIT	C85224
SNOMED CT	191384005
UMLS	C0272414
MedGen	75782
GARD	0000328
NORD	1836
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: displaced spleen · displaced spleens · drifting spleen · drifting spleens · floating spleen · floating spleens · Ptoses, splenic · ptosis, splenic · spleen, displaced · spleen, drifting · spleen, floating · spleen, wandering · spleens, displaced · spleens, drifting · spleens, floating · spleens, wandering · splenic Ptoses · splenic ptosis · Splenoptoses · splenoptosis (+2 more)

Disease family

This is a subtype of splenic disorder. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by body system or component › hematologic disorder › splenic disorder › wandering spleen

Related subtypes (7): splenic sequestration, splenic abscess, splenic tuberculosis, hypersplenism, splenic infarction, spleen neoplasm, congestive splenomegaly

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.