Extensive Hepatic Infarction due to Polycythemia Vera

Authors

  • Kazuhiro Furukawa Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
  • Fumihiro Urano Department of Gastroenterology, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Japan
  • Shozo Okamura Department of Gastroenterology, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Japan
  • Hiroki Kawashima Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15403/jgld-5379

Keywords:

hepatic infarction, polycythemia vera

Abstract

Polycythemia vera (PV) is one of the three BCR-ABL1-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms characterized by activating mutations in JAK2, which clinically presents as erythrocytosis and has an increased risk of both thromboembolic events and progression to myelofibrosis and acute myeloid leukemia. Splanchnic vein thrombosis is a rare manifestation of venous thromboembolism involving one or more abdominal vessels and is strongly associated with PV. We herein report a case in which hepatic infarction due to PV was saved by conservative treatment.

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2024-03-29

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Furukawa K, Urano F, Okamura S, Kawashima H. Extensive Hepatic Infarction due to Polycythemia Vera. JGLD [Internet]. 2024 Mar. 29 [cited 2026 Jul. 14];33(1):18. Available from: https://www.jgld.ro/jgld/index.php/jgld/article/view/5379

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Vol. 33 No. 1: March 2024

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