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Introducing heat-not-burn tobacco improves hematocrit and cigarette smoking-related symptoms in patients with smokers' polycythemia and polycythemia vera. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Cigarette smoking induces relative and absolute erythrocytosis (smokers' polycythemia). In patients with smokers' polycythemia complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the incidence and mortality rate of pulmonary embolism increase ...
Kazuhide Iizuka, Yoshikazu Iizuka, Shun Ito, Toshihide Endo, Hironao Nukariya, Yuichi Takeuchi, Takashi Koike, Kazuya Kurihara, Hiromichi Takahashi, Masaru Nakagawa, Takashi Hamada, Shimon Ohtake, Noriyoshi Iriyama, Katsuhiro Miura, Tomohiro Nakayama, Yoshihiro Hatta, Hideki Nakamura, Norio Komatsu   +17 more
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Ovarian Hyperthecosis Presenting as Polycythemia [PDF]

AACE Clinical Case Reports
Background/Objective: A 58-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with polycythemia on routine laboratory examinations along with long-standing hirsutism.
Gayatri Jaiswal, MD, Fnu Varsha, MD, Patricia Bononi, MD, Christina Dimech, MD, Ashni Dharia, MD   +4 more
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Polycythemia and chorea. [PDF]

BMJ, 1968
K. W. G. Heathfield
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Relation of giant right atrial mass and thrombocytopenia; Recovery with surgery [PDF]

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research
As we know, cardiac myxoma is one of the most primary cardiac masses but laboratory findings in this type of tumor is non-specific and the diagnosis is by imaging.
Roghayeh Pourkia, Sadegh Sedaghat, Hamid Reza Vafaei, Seyed Sina Taheri Otaghsare   +3 more
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Effect of smoking and smoking cessation on hematological parameters in polycythemic patients [PDF]

Open Medicine
The number of studies on the effect of smoking cessation interventions in polycythemic patients is limited. Our aim was to examine the effects of quitting smoking on hematological parameters in patients with polycythemia and to evaluate the outcomes of ...
Ilkkilic Kadir, Karadogan Dilek, Telatar Tahsin Gökhan, Cure Osman, Klisic Aleksandra   +4 more
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Haemoglobin Olympia {β Codon 20 (B2) G→A, Val→Met}: A Silent Haemoglobin Variant [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021
High oxygen affinity haemoglobin variants are rare and often underdiagnosed in persistent erythrocytosis with no apparent aetiology. Here the author present a 29-year-old Indian male patient with a long-standing history of erythrocytosis which was ...
Abhay A Bhave, Lakshmi Iyer, Nawal Kazi, Manju Gorivale, Anita Nadkarni   +4 more
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Prevalence and diagnostic performance of iron deficiency in polycythemia

Hematology, 2023
Introduction Several observations have shown that patients with polycythemia have iron deficiency. Our objectives were to report the prevalence of iron deficiency and to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum ferritin in polycythemia vera.Patients ...
Rova Malala Fandresena Randrianarisoa, Herveat Ramanandafy, Alexandre Mania, Hélène Monjanel, Sébastien Trouillier   +4 more
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Thromboembolic complications of polycythemia: Polycythemia vera versus smokers' polycythemia [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery, 1993
This report compares patients with the hypercoagulable state of polycythemia vera to patients with secondary polycythemia caused by tobacco use to determine whether the incidence of thromboembolic events is equivalent.The medical records of 146 patients with the diagnosis of polycythemia between 1977 to 1990 were reviewed.
Thomas H. Schwarcz, Eric D. Endean, Gordon L. Hyde, Andris Kazmers, Lisa A. Hogan, Ileda T. Roitman   +5 more
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Secondary polycythemia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: prevalence and risk factors

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Background Secondary polycythemia is associated with cigarette smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the prevalence of polycythemia in COPD and the contributing risk factors for polycythemia in COPD have not been extensively ...
Jingzhou Zhang, Dawn L. DeMeo, Edwin K. Silverman, Barry J. Make, R. Chad Wade, J. Michael Wells, Michael H. Cho, Brian D. Hobbs   +7 more
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Polycythemia with elevated erythropoietin production in a patient with a urinary stone and unilateral hydronephrosis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Absolute polycythemia can be primary or secondary. Erythropoietin-producing diseases (for example, hypoxia) are the major cause of secondary polycythemia. There are reports of polycythemia secondary to hydronephrosis. However, to our knowledge,
Yuriko Hajika, Yuji Kawaguchi, Kenji Hamazaki, Yasuro Kumeda   +3 more
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