Dear Dr. Gott: I have been diagnosed with essential thrombocytosis. I am being treated with hydroxyurea. I also experience leg cramps, neuropathy in my feet and a dropped left foot. I previously had ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 60-year-old woman, recently diagnosed with essential thrombocytosis, which apparently is rare and a form of bone marrow cancer. It was found during a routine blood test, and I ...

We describe a patient with signs of partial third nerve palsy, severe iritis, and loss of vision due to essential thrombocytosis. A 60-year-old man was referred from the neurologists by whom he had ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was interested in your column on essential thrombocytosis, as my husband had the same problem for about eight years until his death from heart failure (at age 90). His platelets had ...

At variance with previous classification systems of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), it has been generally recognized that the 2008 updated diagnostic criteria 1 proposed by a panel of ...

Analysis of a large single center cohort demonstrates poor prognosis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in HIV infected patients (pts). Overall survival (OS) and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This patient presents with a persistently elevated platelet count. Though she did give birth a number of months ...

A patient who is receiving cisplatin and gemcitabine in 2 cycles for nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) developed thrombocytosis (platelet count 800,000/mcL). There are no other side effects. Is it ...