Policytemia

Lentiginoses is a clinical feature in which lentigines are remarkably present in large numbers or when they occur in a distinctive distribution on apparently normal skin. This entity may be congenital or acquired and may cover a wide spectrum of diseases ranging from an isolated benign pigmentary disorder to numerous syndromes associated with molecular abnormalities.We present a 59-year-old female patient with multiple lentigines which first emerged 3 y ago concurrently with policytemia vera. The patient had found to be positive for Janus Kinase-2 (JAK-2) mutation...

INTRODUCTION: The Budd-Chiari syndrome is a low-prevalence disease due to an hepatic outflow obstruction. It is associated with procoagulant status and liver transplantation is one of the therapeutic tools for the treatment. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the etiology, presenting form, treatment and evolution of patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHOD: Ten consecutive adult patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome evaluated from January 1998 to June 2009 were prospectively included...

The aim of the study was an analysis of renal transplantation results in the Krakow Transplant Center during 1992-2000. The analysis concerned 94 cadaveric transplant recipients. The study group included 31 females aged 23 to 61 years (mean 40.4 years) and 63 males aged 16 to 60 years (mean 41.8 years). The time of pre-transplant renal replacement therapy ranged from 4 to 120 months (mean 32 months). The mean time of total ischaemia was 22 hours 20 minutes. The majority of the recipients had three identical antigens out of six typed...

PURPOSE: To evaluate the cholesterol metabolism in oncohaematologic patients and its inclusion as a biochemical marker as well as other parameters in the diagnostic period (leukocytes, deshidrogenase lactate, erithrosedimentation, haptoglobine). Many different epidemiological studies discuss the relation between the high risk for cancer mortality and low blood cholesterol in patients with colon, rectum, ovary and brain cancer as well as in chronic myeloid leukaemia, acute leukaemia and policytemia vera...