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Significance of thrombocytopenia in patients with primary and postessential thrombocythemia/polycythemia vera myelofibrosis.
European journal of haematology - 1 Mar 2018
Masarova Lucia, Alhuraiji Ahmad, Bose Prithviraj, Daver Naval, Pemmaraju Naveen, Cortes Jorge, Pierce Sherry, Kantarjian Hagop, Verstovsek Srdan
Abstract excerpt
Severe thrombocytopenia (platelets <50 × 109 /L) is associated with very poor outcome of patients with myelofibrosis (MF). As patients with primary myelofibrosis (PMF) differ from patients with postessential thrombocythemia (PET-MF) and postpolycythemia vera myelofibrosis (PPV-MF), we aimed to evaluate the significance of low platelets among these patients. We present clinical characteristics and outcome of...
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