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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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Non malignant haematological disorders: thrombocytopenia, leucopoenia, hyperleucocytosis, anaemia, polycythemia is rare, bone marrow failure.
This is more than twice the production rate in adults, primarily because of relative polycythemia and increased red blood cell turnover in neonates.
Paraneoplastic erythrocytosis is distinguished from polycythemia vera by the absence of pancytosis and splenomegaly.
In patients with chronic hypoxemic lung disease, polycythemia has been shown to impair the vasodilator response to acetylcholine.
Lastly, polycythemia can develop in the presence of certain types of tumours and as the result of the action of adrenocortical secretions.
Dr Alessandro Vannucchi will present the promising results of a Phase III trial for polycythemia vera patients.

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