While taking testosterone-based HRT, your doctor will monitor your bloodwork for signs of polycythemia. If found, several treatment options are available. Testosterone is responsible for many body ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a blood cancer that begins in the marrow of your bones, the soft center where new blood cells grow. It causes your marrow to make too many red blood cells so your blood is ...

Polycythemia vera is a classic myeloproliferative neoplasm and a chronic type of leukemia, which often leads to overproduction of various blood cells. In this interview, Andrew Kuykendall, MD, ...

Clinicians often encounter patients with hypogonadism in association with declining endogenous testosterone production that occurs as men age. This is sometimes referred to as andropause. Signs and ...

CHICAGO -- The use of the investigational weekly subcutaneous injection rusfertide significantly reduced the need for phlebotomy among polycythemia vera patients who had been dependent on it, the ...

PV management requires balancing thrombotic risk reduction with quality of life preservation, often involving trade-offs. JAK/STAT pathway activation contributes to chronic inflammation and symptom ...

There is no special diet plan for PV, but eating foods that help manage a person’s weight, cholesterol, and blood pressure and limiting foods high in fat, sodium, sugar, purines, and oxalates can help ...

LIVER tumors, usually hepatomas, are relatively frequent in cases of hepatic cirrhosis, occurring in approximately 3 or 4 per cent of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and in a somewhat higher ...

Background A 16-year-old white male with a history of obstructive uropathy presented to a pediatric outpatient clinic with a first syncope. At presentation, he had a hemoglobin level of 220 g/l, a ...

Polycythemia vera is a rare condition that affects the bone marrow, which is slow to progress and typically develops in later life. It is a condition characterized by the overproduction of red blood ...

Polycythemia vera is not hereditary. While it results from a genetic mutation, or a change in the DNA in a bone marrow cell, the change usually develops during life. It isn’t something you are born ...