Pyridoxin-responsive anaemia in a patient with a history of polycythaemia vera.

Van Gameren, I I; Wijnja, L; Louwes, H; de Wolf, J T · J Intern Med · 1997

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Pancytopenia in the course of polycythaemia vera (PV) following the proliferative and stable phase, ultimately leads to a spent phase characterized by extensive marrow fibrosis. We describe a patient with a history of PV and pancytopenia caused by myelodysplasia, before a genuine end stage myelofibrosis had occurred. The related anaemia was responsive to pyridoxin.

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