Title
20+ yr without leukemic or fibrotic transformation in essential thrombocythemia or polycythemia vera: predictors at diagnosis
UMMS Affiliation
Division of Hematology
Publication Date
2008-01-29
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The current study identified patients with either essential thrombocythemia (ET) or polycythemia vera (PV) who have survived for at least 20 yr without the development of either acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome (AML/MDS) or myelofibrosis (MF) and compared their presenting features with those in whom these complications occurred in the first 10 yr of disease.
METHODS: The study patients were selected from an institutional database of 1061 patients with either ET (n = 603) or PV (n = 458). In both instances, three distinct groups were delineated and their presenting features compared; group A included patients who have remained AML/MDS/MF free after a minimum follow-up of 20 yr; groups B and C included patients who developed either AML/MDS or MF, respectively, in the first decade of their disease.
RESULTS: The respective number of patients who fulfilled the above-mentioned criteria for inclusion in groups A, B and C were 40, 12 and 8 for ET and 23, 18 and 12 for PV. In ET, compared with both groups B and C, group A displayed significantly fewer patients with less than normal hemoglobin level (P < 0.0001 and =0.02) or male sex (P = 0.005 and 0.05), respectively. On multivariable analysis, only anemia sustained its significance. A similar analysis in PV revealed an association between group B and leukocytosis using a leukocyte count threshold of either 10 or 15 x 10(9)/L (P = 0.02).
CONCLUSION: The current study identifies PV patients with leukocytosis and ET patients with anemia as the most likely to undergo leukemic or fibrotic transformation.
DOI of Published Version
10.1111/j.1600-0609.2008.01038.x
Source
Eur J Haematol. 2008 May;80(5):386-90. Epub 2008 Jan 23. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
European journal of haematology
Related Resources
PubMed ID
18221390
Repository Citation
Tefferi A, Gangat N, Wolanskyj AP, Schwager SM, Pardanani AD, Lasho TL, Mesa RA, McClure RF, Li C, Hanson CA. (2008). 20+ yr without leukemic or fibrotic transformation in essential thrombocythemia or polycythemia vera: predictors at diagnosis. GSBS Student Publications. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0609.2008.01038.x. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/1434