Tag: Myeloproliferative
Polycythemia
DEFINITION:
True polycythemia is defi ned by the increase in total cell mass.
The increase in blood count, hematocrit or hemoglobin that the rate can only...
Polycythemia vera
With chronic myeloid leukemia, essential thrombocythemia and primary myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera or polycythemia vera is one of the myeloproliferative disorders. It is therefore characterized...
Eosinophilia
DIAGNOSIS:
We talk hypereosinophilic when eosinophils counts greater than 500 / mm3 (5 gigas / L).
The moderate eosinophilia (500 to 1000 / mm3) are most...
Thrombocytosis
Thrombocytosis is defined as a platelet count greater than 600,000 / mm3. We distinguish secondary thrombocytosis (iron deficiency, inflammation or hyposplenism) of "primitive" thrombocytosis...
