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JOSEPH B. VACCA, M.D.; GEORGE E. THOMA, Jr., M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(6):974-977.

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Vascular occlusions occur rather frequently in polycythemia vera. While venous thromboses are said to be commoner, arterial occlusion or insufficiency has been reported to occur in approximately 18% to 30% of several series.^1-4 While at least one earlier report concluded that cardiac disease was uncommon in polycythemia vera,⁵ later articles have shown coronary artery disease to occur clinically in from 6% to 10% of cases ^1,4,6 and to be the cause of death in approximately one-fourth of a small series prior to the use of radioactive phosphorus in therapy.³

Myocardial infarction occurring early in the course of polycythemia vera is apparently rare; we have been able to discover but one brief reference to the occurrence of this complication, in a previously undiagnosed (and presumably asymptomatic) case.⁷ The purpose of this communication is to report a 41-year-old patient who was discovered to have asymptomatic polycythemia vera at the time he had . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
St. Louis

From the Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 27, 1958.

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