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  2. Polycythemia - Wikipedia

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    Chuvash erythrocytosis or Chuvash polycythemia is an autosomal recessive form of erythrocytosis endemic in patients from the Chuvash Republic in Russia. Chuvash erythrocytosis is associated with homozygosity for a C598T mutation in the von Hippel–Lindau gene ( VHL ), which is needed for the destruction of hypoxia-inducible factors in the ...

  3. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    Meaning ā (a with a bar over it) before (from Latin ante) before: A: assessment a.a. of each (from Latin ana ana) amino acids: A or Ala – alanine; C or Cys – cysteine; D or Asp – aspartic acid; E or Glu – glutamic acid; F or Phe – phenylalanine; H or His – histidine; I or Ile – isoleucine; K or Lys – lysine; L or Leu ...

  4. Hemoglobinopathy - Wikipedia

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    Hemoglobinopathy is the medical term for a group of inherited blood disorders involving the hemoglobin, the major protein of red blood cells. [1] They are generally single-gene disorders and, in most cases, they are inherited as autosomal recessive traits.

  5. Polycythemia vera - Wikipedia

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    In oncology, polycythemia vera (PV) is an uncommon myeloproliferative neoplasm in which the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells. [1] The majority of cases [2] are caused by mutations in the JAK2 gene, most commonly resulting in a single amino acid change in its protein product from valine to phenylalanine at position 617.

  6. Hematologic disease - Wikipedia

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    Erythrocytosis (increase in the number of red blood cells) Leukocytosis (increase in the number of white blood cells) Thrombocytosis (increase in the number of platelets) Myeloproliferative disorder; Transient myeloproliferative disease; Coagulopathies (disorders of bleeding and coagulation) Thrombocytosis; Recurrent thrombosis

  7. Erythrocytosis - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 13 November 2006, at 03:38 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. List of neurological conditions and disorders - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e ...

  9. TEMPI syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Telangiectasia-erythrocytosis-monoclonal gammopathy-perinephric-fluid collections-intrapulmonary shunting syndrome TEMPI syndrome is an orphan disease where the patients share five characteristics from which the acronym is derived: telangiectasias , elevated erythropoietin and erythrocytosis , monoclonal gammopathy , perinephric fluid ...