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Query: UMLS:C0032463 (polycythemia vera)
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Thirty-six patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) were studied as regards blood coagulation and fibrinolysis. These studies revealed various mild abnormalities: activated thromboplastin time (APTT) tended to prolong and the level of factor V decreased significantly. In several cases, the levels of D-dimer, thrombin-antithrombin III complex and plasmin-alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor complex were elevated compared to normal. These results suggest that abnormal coagulation system in the patients with CMPD is related to low grade disseminated intravascular coagulation. Many coagulation factors did not correlate with peripheral blood cell counts. Two patients with polycythemia vera were evaluated for several abnormalities of the coagulation system before and during treatment. Coagulation abnormalities persisted after hematologic control had been achieved. Our results suggest that patients with CMPD have a chronic state of abnormal blood coagulation system even after normalization of blood cell counts.
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PMID:[Abnormal blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in chronic myeloproliferative disorders]. 187 Feb 70

Blood coagulation and fibrinolysis were studied in 65 patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (MPD). They consisted of 28 patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) in chronic phase, 7 with CGL in blast crisis, 9 with polycythemia vera (PV), 13 with primary thrombocythemia (PTh) and 8 with primary myelofibrosis (MF). Hemorrhagic and thrombotic complications were observed in 19 and 8 patients, respectively. Activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time were prolonged in many patients. Low factor II levels were observed in some CGL patients. Factor V was decreased in CGL patients in chronic phase and in PV patients. Fibrinogen was either normal or increased in most patients, but an elevation of fibrin/fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) was found in some patients. The VIIIR: Ag/VIII:C ratio was increased in CGL patients in blast crisis, in PV patients and in PTh patients. Antithrombin III and plasminogen were below normal in some patients. Most patients showed a decrease in alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor. These findings suggest that blood coagulation and fibrinolysis are involved in the pathogenesis of the thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications in these patients. Chronic low-grade intravascular coagulation might be present in some patients with MPD.
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PMID:Profile of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in chronic myeloproliferative disorders. 695 82

The aim of the study was the evaluation of the participation of fibrinolytic system in the pathogenesis of haemostasis disturbances on the base of the determination of plasminogenesis intensity and some other fibrinolytic parameters. The study was performed in the group of 73 patients suffering from chronic meyloproliferative syndromes aged 36-78 (means 54,0) years: in 22 with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), in 25 with polycythemia vera (PV), in 21 with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and in 5 patients with meylofibrosis (MF). Control group contained 30 healthy volunteers sex and age matched. In the citric plasma obtained from venous blood concentration of plasmin-alpha2 antiplasmin complexes (PAP) using immunosorbed method (ELISA), alpha-2-antiplasmin with chromogenic method, concentration of fibrinogen and fibrin/ /fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) were determined. In blood plasma of patients with chronic myeloproliferative syndromes increased concentration of PAP complexes was detected what is the evidence of high intensity of plasmin generation.
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PMID:[Plasminogenesis in blood of patients with chronic myeloproliferative syndromes]. 1727 81