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Hemostatic gene polymorphisms and the prevalence of thrombotic complications in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.
Blood coagulation & fibrinolysis : an international journal in haemostasis and thrombosis - 1 Jan 2004
Afshar-Kharghan Vahid, López José A, Gray Leigh A, Padilla Arnoldo, Borthakur Gautam, Roberts Stacy C, Pruthi Rajiv K, Tefferi Ayalew
Abstract excerpt
Patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia are at risk for thrombotic and bleeding complications. Currently, no diagnostic test can predict thrombohemorrhagic complications. In a prospective study of 86 patients with polycythemia vera (43 patients) or essential thrombocythemia (43 patients), we examined the possible role of polymorphisms of platelet adhesion receptors [glycoprotein (GP)...
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