Thromboembolic disease susceptibility related to red cell membrane fluidity in patients with polycythemia vera and effect of phlebotomies

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 299-304

  Ambrus, J L ^a,b   Ambrus, C M ^a   Dembinsky, W ^a   Sykes, D ^a   Kulaylat, M N ^a   Patel, R ^a   Akhter, S ^a   Islam, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Polycythemia vera; Red cell membrane fluidity deformability; Thromboembolic disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERVISCOSITY SYNDROME; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMY; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTOSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033505785     PISSN: 00257850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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