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New England Journal of Medicine, 1978
Twenty-two smokers with elevated hematocrits (mean, 54 per cent) had elevated blood carboxyhemoglobin (mean, 11.6 per cent; normal, less than 1 per cent) and a "left-shifted" oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve (mean P50, 21.6 +/- 2.3 [+/- S.D.] torr; normal, 26.7 +/- 1.1).
J R, Smith, S A, Landaw
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Polycythemia vera

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 2003
The differential diagnosis of an elevated hematocrit and the criteria for the diagnosis of polycythemia vera present little or no problem; however, there is not a consensus on therapy. Spivak likened this to a conundrum--"an intricate and difficult problem." Nonetheless, it can be argued that on the basis of the following criteria--life expectancy, the
Nathanial, Berlin, Nathanial I, Berlin
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Neonatal Polycythemia

Pediatrics, 1982
The article by Ramamurthy and Brans (Pediatrics 68:168, 1981) on the criteria for diagnosis and treatment of neonatal polycythemia was most interesting. Their conclusions that there are considerable and unpredictable differences between capillary, peripheral, venous, and umbilical venous hematocrit levels in the same neonate might be of much importance
M, Shohat, P, Merlob, S H, Reisner
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polycythemia vera
hematocrit

3. good health
phlebotomy
hemoglobin

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diagnosis, differential
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