polycythemia in English

noun
1
an abnormally increased concentration of hemoglobin in the blood, through either reduction of plasma volume or increase in red cell numbers. It may be a primary disease of unknown cause, or a secondary condition linked to respiratory or circulatory disorder or cancer.

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1. Conclusion: Hemoglobinopathies with a high oxygen affinity are a rare but important differential diagnosis of polycythemia.

2. The association of acrocentric chromosomes in blood diseases (chronic granulocytic leukaemia, polycythemia vera, myelomonocytic leukaemia in children) was quantitatively studied.

3. The prognosis in cases of refractory anemia with hyperplastic bone marrow following polycythemia vera is, independent of the subsequent acute leukemia, invariably terminal.

4. 17 Animals with erythroleukemia are anemic despite having a marrow filled with rubriblasts, where as those with polycythemia vera have erythrocytosis.

5. High platelet counts can occur in patients with polycythemia vera (high red blood cell counts), and is an additional risk factor for complications.

6. Doctors still use Bloodletting, for instance, in cases of polycythemia—an abnormally high red blood cell count—and in a hereditary disease called hemochromatosis, which …

7. The presence of placental vascular Anastomoses is a conditio sine qua non for the development of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) and twin anemia polycythemia sequence (TAPS)(1,2)

8. Intraperitoneal blood transfusion is a widely used method for inducing polycythemia in experimental animals; furtheron, it has been used in the past to transfuse blood in anemic patients.

9. These cases of CMPD break down into the main groups as follows: CML 23.2 %, megakaryocytic myelosis consistent with agnogenic myeloid metaplasia 22.3 %, essential thrombocythemia 22.1 %, and polycythemia vera 20.4 %; 12.0 % of cases were unclassifiable.

10. Bloodletting today Today phlebotomy therapy is primarily used in Western medicine for a few conditions such as hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, and porphyria cutanea tarda.[ 11 ] Hemochromatosis is a genetic disorder of iron metabolism leading to abnormal iron accumulation in liver, pancreas, heart, pituitary, joints, and skin.

11. The symptoms and signs may include rapidly developing Adiposity of the face, neck, and trunk, kyphosis caused by osteoporosis of the spine, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, amenorrhea, hypertrichosis in females, impotence in males, dusky complexion with purple markings, polycythemia, pain in the abdomen and back, and muscular wasting and weakness.

12. A total of 130 diagnostic biopsies from 29 cases of chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML.CT), 26 cases of (CML.MI), 28 of essential thrombocythemia (PTH), 26 cases of chronic megakaryocytic granulocytic myelosis (CMGM), and 21 of polycythemia vera (P. vera), and 30 from healthy control persons were evaluated morphometrically in sections of undecalcified plastic-embedded core biopsies.

13. The percentage of granulocyte precursors with increased DNA-content raised from 27 to 91% within 3 days in one of the patients with agranulocytosis. The percentage of precursors in DNA synthetic period was the same in 10 patients with chron. myel. leukaemia and in one patients with polycythemia vera as in normal granulopoesis.