Chapter 103. Polycythemia Vera and Other Myeloproliferative Diseases (Part 8)
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Chronic Idiopathic Myelofibrosis: Treatment No specific therapy exists for chronic IMF. Anemia may be due to gastrointestinal blood loss and exacerbated by folic acid deficiency, and in rare instances, pyridoxine therapy has been effective. However, anemia is more often due to ineffective erythropoiesis uncompensated by extramedullary hematopoiesis in the spleen and liver. Neither recombinant erythropoietin nor androgens, such as Danazol, have proved consistently effective as therapy for anemia. Erythropoietin may worsen splenomegaly and will be ineffective if the serum erythropoietin level is 125 mU/L. A red cell splenic sequestration study can establish the presence of hypersplenism, for which splenectomy is...
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