Dissecting Primary Erythrocytosis Among Polycythemia Patients Referred to an Indian Armed Forces Hospital.

Erythrocytosis Erythropoietin JAK2 mutation Polycythemia

Journal

Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
ISSN: 0971-4502
Titre abrégé: Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus
Pays: India
ID NLM: 9425818

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2020
Historique:
received: 12 06 2019
accepted: 24 06 2019
entrez: 12 3 2020
pubmed: 12 3 2020
medline: 12 3 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Referrals for evaluation of polycythemia cases have increased since the hemoglobin (Hb) thresholds for diagnosis of Polycythemia Vera (PV) have been lowered by WHO. The current study enrolled patients of age > 18 years from the Indian Armed Forces or their family members with polycythemia from November 2016 to October 2018. After exclusion of secondary causes, 49 patients were diagnosed as Primary Erythrocytosis (PE). The patients were classified into two groups: PV and Idiopathic Erythrocytosis (IE) and a systematic comparison of clinical and laboratory features of the two groups was done. The prevalence of PV in PE was 20.4% (10 of 49) while the rest 39 (79.6%) had IE. Seven PV patients had

Identifiants

pubmed: 32158103
doi: 10.1007/s12288-019-01155-0
pii: 1155
pmc: PMC7042446
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

187-191

Informations de copyright

© Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion 2019.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of interestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Harshit Khurana (H)

1Medical Division, Command Hospital Air Force (CHAF), Bangalore, Karnataka India.

Praveen Lakshman (P)

1Medical Division, Command Hospital Air Force (CHAF), Bangalore, Karnataka India.

Kishore Kumar (K)

1Medical Division, Command Hospital Air Force (CHAF), Bangalore, Karnataka India.

Arihant Jain (A)

2Department of Internal Medicine (Clinical Hematology Division), Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.

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