Delayed diagnosis of polycythaemia vera in an adult female with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension

Polycythaemia vera (PV) is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized primarily by erythrocytosis and an increased risk of thrombosis. We report a case of PV in a 60-year-old female with diabetes mellitus (DM) and a past history of recurrent abdominal pain and documented oesophageal varices wh...

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Autores principales: Tachi, Kenneth, Ekem, Victor, Dei-Adomakoh, Yvonne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ghana Medical Association 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9334950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35919777
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v56i1.6
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description Polycythaemia vera (PV) is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized primarily by erythrocytosis and an increased risk of thrombosis. We report a case of PV in a 60-year-old female with diabetes mellitus (DM) and a past history of recurrent abdominal pain and documented oesophageal varices who was followed up for 2 years as a case of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension of unknown cause. PV was only diagnosed after persistent complaints of vaso-motor symptoms and better scrutiny of full blood count results.
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spelling pubmed-93349502022-08-01 Delayed diagnosis of polycythaemia vera in an adult female with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension Tachi, Kenneth Ekem, Victor Dei-Adomakoh, Yvonne Ghana Med J Case Report Polycythaemia vera (PV) is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized primarily by erythrocytosis and an increased risk of thrombosis. We report a case of PV in a 60-year-old female with diabetes mellitus (DM) and a past history of recurrent abdominal pain and documented oesophageal varices who was followed up for 2 years as a case of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension of unknown cause. PV was only diagnosed after persistent complaints of vaso-motor symptoms and better scrutiny of full blood count results. Ghana Medical Association 2022-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9334950/ /pubmed/35919777 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v56i1.6 Text en Copyright © The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license.
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title_fullStr Delayed diagnosis of polycythaemia vera in an adult female with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
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title_short Delayed diagnosis of polycythaemia vera in an adult female with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
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