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BACKGROUND Polycythemia vera is a clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorder in which the JAK2 V617F mutation is observed in >95% of patients, but an as yet unidentified process appears to initiate the clonal expansion of hematopoiesis. Because microRNA regulate hematopoietic differentiation, we hypothesized that dysregulated expression of microRNA may contribute to the pathophysiology of polycyth...

We analyzed the effect of hydroxyurea on the JAK2V617F allelic ratio (%JAK2V617F), measured in purified blood granulocytes, of patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia. Thirty-six patients were examined sequentially prior to and after start of hydroxy-urea therapy (8 polycythemia vera, 17 essential thrombocythemia), or while remaining untreated (2 polycythemia vera, 9 essen...

BACKGROUND The role of the environment in the origin of polycythemia vera has not been well documented. Recently, molecular diagnostic tools have been developed to facilitate the diagnosis of polycythemia vera. A cluster of patients with polycythemia vera was suspected in three countries in eastern Pennsylvania where there have long been a concern about environment hazards. METHODS Rigorous c...

Thromboembolic events represent the main cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with polycythemia vera. Leukocytosis has been identified as an important risk factor for development of vascular thrombosis. A 47-year-old woman with polycythemia vera presented with pain and swelling in her right calf. She was scheduled to receive anagrelide which was effective on polycythemia and thrombocyto...

extramedullary hematopoiesis is characterized by the presence of hematopoietic tissue outside the bone marrow. extrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis is a rare and usually asymptomatic condition. we report a case of a 38-year-old female with paraspinal and presacral extramedullary hematopoiesis with polycythemia vera. clinical and laboratory evaluation, along with radiological and histopath...

INTRODUCTION Polycythemia vera is a polyglobular myeloproliferative syndrome related to the mutation of multipotent hemopoietic stem cells. This case report describes a patient whose bladder tumor was associated with polycythemia vera and erectile dysfunction. The association of bladder neoplasia with polycythemia vera and erectile dysfunction has not previously been reported in the literature....

TET2 mutations are found in polycythemia vera and it was initially reported that there is a greater TET2 mutational burden than JAK2(V617F) in polycythemia vera stem cells and that TET2 mutations precede JAK2(V617F). We quantified the proportion of TET2, JAK2(V617F) mutations and X-chromosome allelic usage in polycythemia vera cells, BFU-Es and in vitro expanded erythroid progenitors and found ...

CONTEXT Megakaryocytes are the "hallmark" of Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms, such as essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, and primary myelofibrosis; their morphology in correlation with Janus kinase 2 (JAK2 V617F) mutation as well as clinical and laboratory parameters remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess the morphology of megakaryocytes in bone marrow b...

The regulation of erythropoiesis was control cultures. Erythropoietin was studied in patients with polycythemia ineffective in stimulating iron incorpovera and chronic granulocytic Ieukeration into heme in five patients with mia (CGL). An in vitro culture system polycythemia vera. The marrow rewas employed to determine the response to erythropoietin in vitro was sponse of bone marrow cells to e...