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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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Dr Alessandro Vannucchi will present the promising results of a Phase III trial for polycythemia vera patients.
This is more than twice the production rate in adults, primarily because of relative polycythemia and increased red blood cell turnover in neonates.
Other symptoms of polycythemia vera include headaches, transient neurologic or ocular complaints, and paresthesias.
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.
These mice are characterized by polycythemia but have normal blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output.

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