The cause of death was complications secondary to myeloproliferative disease and myelodysplasia.
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A classic symptom of polycythemia vera ( and the related myeloproliferative disease essential thrombocythemia ) is erythromelalgia.
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Many patients have Budd Chiari syndrome as a complication of polycythemia vera ( myeloproliferative disease of red blood cells ).
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"' Thrombocytosis "'( or "'thrombocythemia "') is the presence of high platelet counts in the blood, and can be either primary ( also termed essential and caused by a myeloproliferative disease ) or reactive ( also termed secondary ).
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The specific diseases and conditions where it used include gouty arthritis, skin tophi, kidney stones idiopathic gout; uric acid lithiasis; acute uric acid nephropathy; neoplastic disease and myeloproliferative disease with high cell turnover rates, in which high urate levels occur either spontaneously, or after cytotoxic therapy; certain enzyme disorders which lead to overproduction of urate, for example : hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase, including Lesch-Nyhan syndrome; glucose-6-phosphatase including glycogen storage disease; phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase, phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate amidotransferase; adenine phosphoribosyl transferase.