Efficacy and safety of hydroxyurea in patients with essential thrombocythemia
β Scribed by G Finazzi; T Barbui
- Book ID
- 117507710
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0369-8114
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Essential thrombocythemia (El) Is an uncommon myeloprollferatlve disorder, which is thought to develop from a multlpotent stem cell. Like other myeloprollferatlve diseases, ET is assoclated with an increased risk of development of acute leukemla (AL). However, the large majority of cases of leukemic
In polycythemia Vera (PV), treatment with chlorambucil and radioactive phosphorus (p32) increases the risk of leukemic transformation from 1% to 13-14%. This risk has been estimated to be 1-5.9% with hydroxyurea (HU) therapy. When compared with historical controls, the risk with use of HU does not a