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- Title
Initial (Latent) Polycythemia vera with Thrombocytosis Mimicking Essential Thrombocythemia.
- Authors
Thiele, Jürgen; Kvasnicka, Hans Michael; Diehl, Volker
- Abstract
Patients have previously been described who showed clinical signs and symptoms suggesting essential thrombocythemia (ET), but later transformed to polycythemia vera (PV). From a series of 344 patients with a sustained borderline to moderate erythrocytosis, 44 failed to conform initially with the diagnostic criteria of the WHO for PV, because of their low hemoglobin level. Twenty-three patients of this group presented with a thrombocytosis exceeding 600 × 109/l and therefore suggested ET, but later developed full-blown PV. For comparison we investigated also 164 patients with manifest PV, 90 patients with ET and 22 patients with reactive thrombocytosis (Th). The histopathology of initial PV was evaluated by stepwise discriminant analysis of 17 standardized features. Quantity and left shifting of erythro- and granulopoiesis, giant forms and naked nuclei of megakaryocytes, cellularity and reticulin fibers proved to exert a significant relevance concerning differentiation from true ET and Th. In conclusion, initial PV with thrombocytosis is characterized by a special pattern of BM histopathology. Therefore, so-called masked PV in patients with ET or simultaneous PVR-1 gene expression and endogeneous erythroid colony growth in ET patients are probably in keeping with initial PV mimicking ET. Copyright © 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
POLYCYTHEMIA; BONE marrow; POLYCYTHEMIA vera; BLOOD hyperviscosity syndrome; ERYTHROCYTE disorders
- Publication
Acta Haematologica, 2005, Vol 113, Issue 4, p213
- ISSN
0001-5792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000084673