Ida Martinelli, Valerio De Stefano, Alessandra Carobbio, Maria L Randi, Claudia Santarossa, Alessandro Rambaldi, Maria C Finazzi, Francisco Cervantes, Eduardo Arellano-Rodrigo, Serena Rupoli, Lucia Canafoglia, Alessia Tieghi, Luca Facchini, Silvia Betti, Alessandro M Vannucchi, Lisa Pieri, Rossella Cacciola, Emma Cacciola, Agostino Cortelezzi, Alessandra Iurlo, Enrico M Pogliani, Elena M Elli, Antonio Spadea, Tiziano Barbui
To investigate the characteristics and clinical course of cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) we compared 48 patients with MPN and CVT (group MPN-CVT) to 87 with MPN and other venous thrombosis (group MPN-VT) and 178 with MPN and no thrombosis (group MPN-NoT) matched by sex, age at diagnosis of MPN (±5 years) and type of MPN. The study population was identified among 5,500 patients with MPN, from January 1982 to June 2013. Thrombophilia abnormalities were significantly more prevalent in the MPN-CVT and MPN-VT than in MPN-NoT group (P = 0...
November 2014: American Journal of Hematology