Tag: vera

With chronic myeloid leukemia, essential thrombocythemia and primary myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera or polycythemia vera is one of the myeloproliferative disorders. It is therefore characterized by clonal expansion of a pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell, causing an unregulated proliferation of myeloid tissue predominant in the individual case, erythroid. Unlike secondary polycythemia, resulting from the normal hyperstimulation erythroblast…