DOI: 10.1055/s-00000077

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Issue 03 · Volume 32 · April 2006 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-4852 Essential Thrombocythemia and Polycythemia Vera: Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Management Jan J Michiels M.D. Ph.D. Martin Griesshammer M.D. Ph.D.

PREFACE

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Mammen, Eberhard F.: Essential Thrombocythemia and Polycythemia Vera

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Johansson, Peter: Epidemiology of the Myeloproliferative Disorders Polycythemia Vera and Essential Thrombocythemia
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Michiels, Jan J.; Berneman, Zwi; Bockstaele, Dirk Van; Planken, Marc van der; De Raeve, Hendrik; Schroyens, Wilfried: Clinical and Laboratory Features, Pathobiology of Platelet-Mediated Thrombosis and Bleeding Complications, and the Molecular Etiology of Essential Thrombocythemia and Polycythemia Vera: Therapeutic Implications
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Brière, Jean B.: Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Portal Vein Thrombosis Associated with Myeloproliferative Disorders: Diagnosis and Management
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Thiele, Juergen; Kvasnicka, Hans Michael: Clinicopathological Criteria for Differential Diagnosis of Thrombocythemias in Various Myeloproliferative Disorders
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Schwarz, Jiří; Pytlík, Robert; Doubek, Michael; Brychtová, Yvona; Dulíček, Petr; Campr, Vít; Křen, Leoš; Penka, Miroslav: Analysis of Risk Factors: The Rationale of the Guidelines of the Czech Hematological Society for Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders with Thrombocythemia
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Mossuz, Pascal; on behalf of the Groupe d'Etudes Multicentriques des Syndromes MyéloProlifératifs (GEMSMP): Influence of the Assays of Endogenous Colony Formation and Serum Erythropoietin on the Diagnosis of Polycythemia Vera and Essential Thrombocythemia
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Landolfi, Raffaele; Di Gennaro, Leonardo; Novarese, Linda; Patrono, Carlo: Aspirin for the Control of Platelet Activation and Prevention of Thrombosis in Essential Thrombocythemia and Polycythemia Vera: Current Insights and Rationale for Future Studies
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Birgegard, Gunnar: Anagrelide Treatment in Myeloproliferative Disorders
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Lengfelder, Eva; Merx, Kirsten; Hehlmann, Rüdiger: Diagnosis and Therapy of Polycythemia Vera
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Finazzi, Guido: Risk Stratification, Staging, and Treatment of Patients with Polycythemia Vera: Italian and European Collaboration on Low-Dose Aspirin in Polycythemia Data
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Harrison, Claire N.: Management of Essential Thrombocythemia: Implications of the Medical Research Council Primary Thrombocythemia 1 Trial
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Gordeuk, Victor R.; Prchal, Josef T.: Vascular Complications in Chuvash Polycythemia
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Akkerman, Jan Willm N.: Thrombopoietin and Platelet Function