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Increased mean platelet volume and immature platelet fraction as potential predictors of thrombotic complications in BCR/ABL-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms

Authors

KISSOVÁ Jarmila BULIKOVÁ Alena OVESNÁ Petra BOURKOVÁ Ludmila PENKA Miroslav

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Hematology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12185-014-1673-0
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords Mean platelet volume (MPV); Immature platelet fraction (IPF); BCR/ABL-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN); Thrombosis
Description BCR/ABL-negative myeloproliferative neo¬plasms (MPNs) are considered to be acquired thrombo-philic conditions. Persistently enhanced platelet activation has been described in polycythaemia vera and essential thrombocythaemia (ET), and shown to contribute to a higher risk of arterial and venous thrombotic complica-tions. Recent studies have shown that mean platelet volume (MPV) and immature platelet fraction (1PF) can serve as useful markers of platelet activation and increased risk of thrombosis. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between these parameters and thrombotic events in BCR/ABL-negative MPN. MPV values in patients with BCR/ABL-negative MPN were significantly higher than MPV values of healthy individuals (P < 0.001). No significant difference in MPV or IPF was observed between groups of patients with and without thrombotic complications (P = 0.441; P = 0.110); the difference in IPF values was close to the significance level for patients with ET (P = 0.073). Higher values of IPF were more frequently detected in patients with JAK2 V617F positivity (P = 0.030). These patients had higher MPV more frequently than others, and this difference was close to the significance level (P — 0.056). Further studies should validate the use of platelet parameters to identify patients at high risk.

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