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Primary Polycythemia Rubra Vera in the Elderly.
Abyad. A, Kligman E.
J. of International Medical Research. 1994; 22 (2): 121-129.
Polycythemia Vera (PV) is a clonal disease characterized by involvement of all hematopoietic precursor cell lines. It is one of the subtypes of the chronic myeloproliferative syndromes.
The production of erythroid myeloid and megakaryocytic elements within the bone marrow is increased. The dominant feature is the accumulation of erythrocytes leading to an elevated circulating red blood cell mass. PV has an unusually indolent course with a median survival of 8-15 years .
With optimal treatment, many patients many live for more than 20 years. The disease is more prevalent in later life, the median age of presentation being close to 60 years. Nevertheless, patients in their second through fourth decades are not rare.
There is slight preponderance in males. It is rare in the geriatric population and there is usually need to rule out secondary causes. We report one case of PV in an elderly woman. The literature is reviewed and the diagnosis, management and prognosis of the disease is discussed.
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The Arab Scientists in Cooperation with The High Institute of Marine Research. Publish all the researches abstracts, which presented in The Regional Workshop on Marine Sciences and Natural Resources, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria, 25-26 May 2004.
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The Arab Scientists in Cooperation with The Egyptian Society for Biological Control of Pests . Publish all the researches abstracts, which presented in The First Arab Conference of Applied Biological Pest Control, Cairo, Egypt, 5-7 April 2004.
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The First International Symposium on Environnement protection for development Biotechnological aspects. Fez, December
15 – 17, 2004.
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The Second Syrian-Egyptian conference in the Agriculture and Food.
Agriculture Faculty, Al-Baath university, Homs, Syria. 25-28 April, 05
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Current Status of Plant Protection in Yemen and Future Strategy.
Faculty of Agriculture, Sana'a University, Sana'a, yemen. December 18-20/2004
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The 9th International Conference of the Orthopterists’ Society
Canada, on August 14 19, 2005
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The First Arab Conference on Applications of Biological Control of Pests in Arab Countries
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New Workshop
Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Ageing
First Annual Middle-East Age & Aging Meeting
8-11 April, 2004
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Arab Society for Plant Protection (ASPP) in Cooperation with The Arab Scientists
Publish all the researches abstracts, which presented in the Eighth Arab Congress of
Plant Protection, held in Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, El-beida
City, Libya, October 12-16,2003
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