Emerging Significance and Implications of a Durable Complete Molecular Remission in the Treatment of Polycythemia Vera. [PDF]
Duan M +7 more
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Thrombotic burden and longitudinal outcomes in Thai patients with polycythemia vera. [PDF]
Hantrakun N +10 more
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β-thalassemia trait and iron overload: is it time to consider oral iron chelators? Comment on: "A case series of patients with β-thalassemia trait and iron overload: from multifactorial hepcidin suppression to treatment with mini-phlebotomies". [PDF]
Piperno A, Mariani R.
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When the Air Gets Thin, and the Blood Gets Thick: Choroidal Hemangioma in High-Altitude Polycythemia. [PDF]
Kumar SV +4 more
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Therapeutic Phlebotomy in Patients with Grade 1 Hypertension: A Randomized-Controlled Trial
Aim: Study aim was to investigate the effects of therapeutic phlebotomy on ambulatory blood pressure in patients with grade 1 hypertension. Methods: In this randomized-controlled intervention study, patients with unmedicated hypertension grade 1 were randomized into an intervention group (phlebotomy group; 500 mL bloodletting at baseline and after 6 ...
Michael Jeitler +2 more
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Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH) is a genetic disorder of iron metabolism, resulting in excessive iron overload. Currently, phlebotomy is the standard effective treatment that prevents progression of tissue damage. Aim of the therapy is to reach ferritin levels between 20 and 50mugl(-1).
Eva Rombout-Sestrienkova, Ger H Koek
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Who Needs a Therapeutic Phlebotomy?
Many oncology practices treat patients with benign and malignant hematologic diagnoses. As a result, oncology nurses often are required to care for these patients. One common procedure nurses perform is therapeutic phlebotomy, where about 500 ml of blood is removed through a large-bore needle over 15-30 minutes.
Emily (Amy) Antle
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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Phlebotomy in Hemochromatosis with Anemia
THIS report is concerned principally with the correction, by means of repeated phlebotomies, of moderate anemia and neutropenia, probably caused by hypersplenism, in a patient with idiopathic hemochromatosis. It also emphasizes that anemia per se is not a contraindication to embarking on a therapeutic phlebotomy program. Finally, it illustrates how the
S C, FINCH, R N, BARNETT
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The effect of therapeutic phlebotomy for hemochromatosis on non-suicidal self-injury: A case report
BACKGROUND: Self-phlebotomy has been described as a form of non-suicidal self-injury. However, a relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and therapeutic phlebotomy for hemochromatosis has not previously been described. Case presentation: We present
Benjamin J C Newham, Rahul Khanna
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