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thrombocythemia

 [throm″bo-si-the´me-ah]
thrombocytosis.
essential thrombocythemia (hemorrhagic thrombocythemia) a clinical syndrome with repeated spontaneous hemorrhages, either external or into the tissues, and a greatly increased number of circulating platelets, considered one of the myeloproliferative disorders. Called also megakaryocytic leukemia.
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throm·bo·cy·to·sis

(throm'bō-sī-tō'sis),
An increase in the number of platelets in the circulating blood.
Synonym(s): thrombocythemia
[thrombocyte + G. -osis, condition]
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throm·bo·cy·to·sis

(throm'bō-sī-tō'sis)
An increase in the number of platelets in the circulating blood.
Synonym(s): thrombocythemia.
[thrombocyte + G. -osis, condition]
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throm·bo·cy·to·sis

, thrombocythemia (throm'bō-sī-tō'sis, -sī-thēmē-ă)
An increase in the number of platelets in the circulating blood.
Synonym(s): thrombocythaemia.
[thrombocyte + G. -osis, condition]
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Clinical profile of homozygous JAK2 617V>F mutation in patients with polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia. Blood 2007;110:840-6.
Front-line therapy in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia. Blood Rev 2012; 26(5):205-211.
Development and validation of an international prognostic score of thrombosis in World Health Organization-essential thrombocythemia (IPSET-thrombosis).
Pereira et al., "Risk factors for non-melanoma skin cancer in patients with essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera," European Journal of Haematology, vol.
Efimova et al., "Changes in peripheral blood lymphocytes in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia patients treated with pegylated-interferon alpha and correlation with [JAK2.sup.V617F] allelic burden," Experimental Hematology & Oncology, vol.
(2011) Impact of leukocytosis on thrombotic risk and survival in 532 patients with essential thrombocythemia: a retrospective study.
(1) Between 90% and 98% of patients with polycythemia vera and about 50% of patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) harbor the JAK2V617F mutation.
It is associated with a multitude of conditions, including lymphoproliferative disorders (most common: 48%), myeloproliferative disorders (chronic granulocytic leukemia, essential thrombocythemia, and polycythemia vera), neoplasms (Wilms tumor), immunological disorders, cardiovascular diseases, hypothyroidism, hemoglobinopathies, drugs (valproate, ciprofloxacin, and hydroxyethyl starch), and infections [1, 2, 4-7].
Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a clonal expansion of multipotential stem cells.
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