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Clinical and Pathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Essential Thrombocythemia, Polycythemia Vera, and Idiopathic Myelofibrosis (Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia)
- Source :
- International journal of hematology
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2002.
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Abstract
- A set of clinical and pathological criteria for the diagnosis and staging of Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative disorders (Ph(1-)-MPDs) is presented by including bone marrow histopathology as a significant tool to identify the early, manifest, and advanced stages of essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), and idiopathic myelofibrosis/agnogenic myeloid metaplasia (IMF/AMM). This combined approach provides a pathognomonic clue to each of the different subtypes of Ph(1-)-MPDs and further enables recognition of the various steps in the evolution of the myeloproliferative process Increase and clustering of giant to large megakaryocytes with mature cytoplasm and multilobulated staghorn-like nuclei in a normal or only slightly increased cellular bone marrow represent major hallmarks of ET. Loose assemblies of small to giant pleiomorphic megakaryocytes containing deeply lobulated nuclei together with a proliferation of erythro- and granulopoiesis (panmyelosis) are the specific lesions of PV. The initial prefibrotic and the overt and more advanced myelofibrotic stages of IMF/AMM show a pronounced proliferation of an abnormal megakaryo- and granulopoiesis dominated by clustered atypical medium-sized to giant megakaryocytes with cloud-like, bulbous, and often hyperchromatic nuclei, which are not seen in allied subtypes of MPDs including chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph(1+)-CML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The presented clinical and pathological criteria modify the Polycythemia Vera Study Group (PVSG) proposals for the Ph(1-)-MPDs by including bone marrow histopathology and are in keeping with features outlined in the new World Health Organization classification. The latter allows the differentiation of true ET from reactive thrombocytosis and from thrombocythemias as an eventually presenting finding in PV, IMF/AMM, MDS, and Ph(1+)-CML. Moreover, these diagnostic guidelines are able to separate latent and early PV from secondary erythrocytosis and to detect the prefibrotic and early stages of IMF/AMM. Myelofibrosis is not a feature of ET and is rarely observed in PV at time of diagnosis, but it becomes apparent during long-term follow-up and constitutes a prominent lesion during the course of IMF/ AMM. Life expectancy is almost normal in ET and is also not significantly altered during the first, but compromised during the second, decade of follow-up in PV. On the other hand, survival is substantially shortened in IMF/AMM, even for patients with thrombocythemia as a frequent finding of prefibrotic and early stage IMF/AMM.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Guidelines as Topic
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Polycythemia vera
Bone Marrow
hemic and lymphatic diseases
medicine
Humans
Myelofibrosis
Polycythemia Vera
Essential thrombocythemia
business.industry
Myelodysplastic syndromes
Myeloid leukemia
Hematology
medicine.disease
Panmyelosis
medicine.anatomical_structure
Primary Myelofibrosis
Human medicine
Bone marrow
business
Megakaryocytes
Thrombocythemia, Essential
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18653774 and 09255710
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Hematology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6e137ebabd197eb056415d14c2a71c47