Polycythemia vera

Polycythemia vera
Patients with polycythemia vera also have an increased tendency to form blood clots that can result in strokes or heart attacks. Some patients may experience abnormal bleeding because their platelets are abnormal.
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Polycythemia vera causes the red blood cells to multiply. Red blood cells are the oxygen-carrying cells of the body. Other cells of the blood can also multiply.
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Polycythemia vera is an abnormal increase in blood cells (primarily red blood cells) resulting from excess production by the bone marrow.
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Polycythemia Vera
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Polycythemia vera is a disease in which too many red blood cells are made in the bone marrow.
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Polycythemia vera
High platelet count (thrombocythemia)
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POLYCYTHEMIA VERA (DECEMBER 4, 2002)
[TOO MUCH BLOOD THAT'S TOO "THICK" = POLYCYTHEMIA VERA]
RAYNAUD'S SYNDROME (NOVEMBER 26 2002)
[MONTANA AND RAYNAUD'S SYNDROME NOT A GOOD COMBINATION] ...
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Polycythemia veraA condition characterized by an unusually large number of red blood cells in the blood due to increased production by the bone marrow. Symptoms include headaches, blurred vision, high blood pressure, dizziness, and night sweats.
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Primary polycythemia, also called erythremia, or polycythemia vera, is a chronic, progressive disease, most common in middle-aged men.
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The myeloproliferative disorders include myelophthisic anemia, erythroblastic leukemia, leukemoid reaction, myelofibrosis, myeloid metaplasia, polycythemia vera, and thrombocytosis.
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Expanded indication: treatment of patients with thrombocythemia, secondary to myeloproliferative disorders such as polycythemia vera (PV) and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), ...
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You haven't had enough fluids.
You are a smoker.
You have polycythemia vera, a disease that causes your blood to be too thick because you're making too many red blood cells.
You have smoker's lung disease.
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Conditions that increase RBC values include smoking, exposure to carbon monoxide, long-term lung disease, kidney disease, certain forms of heart disease, alcoholism, liver disease, or a rare disorder of the bone marrow (polycythemia vera).
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