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What does polycythemia mean?

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  1. (medicine) A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells.
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This is more than twice the production rate in adults, primarily because of relative polycythemia and increased red blood cell turnover in neonates.
Dr Alessandro Vannucchi will present the promising results of a Phase III trial for polycythemia vera patients.
In the majority of cases, treatment will completely control or permanently correct polycythemia conditions.
Treatment of polycythemia due to any of these causes involves the correction or alleviation of the primary abnormality.
Absolute polycythemia, when the cause is known, is called erythrocytosis.
The differential diagnoses included chronic hepatitis, idiopathic urticaria, uremia, polycythemia, thyroid disease, and malignancy, among others.

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