During a live event, Mojtaba Akhtari, MD, discussed trials studying patients with high-risk polycythemia vera.

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare blood disorder in which the body makes too many red blood cells. Learn PV symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment.

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Polycythemia vera can be treated with medical interventions and medication to reduce the effects of complications and improve life expectancy. Since there is no cure, disease surveillance and ...

Patients with blood cancers like polycythemia vera, a kind of myeloproliferative neoplasm, may benefit in learning more about ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare form of blood cancer. There’s no cure, but you can control PV through treatment. Learn about the JAK2 genetic mutation that causes PV, which can be detected in a ...

Polycythemia vera treatments help reduce your risk of symptoms and complications. But for some people, the disease still gets worse and turns into another blood cancer, despite treatment.

Many people with polycythemia vera (PV) live a normal life with this rare blood cancer under control. The goal is to avoid complications like blood clots, which may happen because PV thickens your ...

Blood cancers, a category that includes polycythemia vera (PV), are a risk factor for severe COVID-19. As such, managing your risk and taking steps to prevent COVID-19 if you have PV are important ...

THE course of polycythemia vera is complicated by hemorrhagic and thromboembolic phenomena of varying severity occurring in about a third of the cases. These complications have been ascribed to the ...

WINTROBE1 has reported that cases of polycythemia vera have been described early in life, but evidence that they are not examples of secondary polycythemia has seldom been presented. He states that ...