Symptoms of Polycythemia
Symptoms of Polycythemia
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources
for Polycythemia includes the 14
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- Polycythemia
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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Secondary polycythemia:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
In the hypoxic patient, suggestive physical findings include ruddy cyanotic skin, emphysema, and hypoxemia without hepatosplenomegaly or hypertension. Clubbing of the fingers may occur if the underlying disease is cardiovascular. When secondary polycythemia isn’t caused by hypoxemia, it’s usually an incidental finding during treatment of an underlying disease.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Spurious polycythemia:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
The patient with spurious polycythemia usually has no specific symptoms but may have vague complaints, such as headaches, dizziness, and fatigue. Less commonly, he may develop diaphoresis, dyspnea, and claudication.
Typically, the patient has a ruddy appearance, a short neck, slight hypertension, and a tendency to hypoventilate when recumbent. He shows no associated hepatosplenomegaly but may have cardiac or pulmonary disease.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Polycythemia vera:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Increased RBC mass results in hyperviscosity and inhibits blood flow to microcirculation. Subsequently, increased viscosity, diminished velocity, and thrombocytosis promote intravascular thrombosis. In early stages, polycythemia vera usually produces no symptoms. (Increased hematocrit [HCT] may be an incidental finding.) However, as altered circulation secondary to increased RBC mass produces hypervolemia and hyperviscosity, the patient may complain of a feeling of fullness in the head, headache, dizziness, and other symptoms, depending on the body system affected. The patient may also complain of severe itching after a warm or hot shower. Hyperviscosity may lead to thrombosis of smaller vessels with ruddy cyanosis of the nose and clubbing of the digits.
Paradoxically, hemorrhage is a complication of polycythemia vera. It may be due to defective platelet function or to hyperviscosity and the local effects from excess RBCs exerting pressure on distended venous and capillary walls. (See Clinical features of polycythemia vera.)
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Polycythemia, secondary:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
In the hypoxic patient, suggestive physical findings include ruddy cya-notic skin, emphysema, hypoxemia without hepatosplenomegaly, or hypertension. Clubbing of the fingers may occur if the underlying disease is cardiovascular. When the cause isn’t hypoxemia, secondary polycythemia is usually an incidental finding during treatment of an underlying disease.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Polycythemia, spurious:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
The patient with spurious polycythe-mia usually doesn’t have specific symptoms but may have vague complaints, such as headaches, dizziness, and fatigue. Less commonly, he may develop diaphoresis, dyspnea, and claudication.
Typically, the patient has a ruddy appearance, a short neck, slight hyper-tension, and a tendency to hypoventilate when recumbent. He doesn’t show an associated hepatosplenomegaly but may have cardiac or pulmonary disease.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Polycythemia vera:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Increased RBC mass results in hyperviscosity and inhibits blood flow to microcirculation. Subsequently, increased viscosity, diminished velocity, and thrombocytosis promote intravascular thrombosis.
Progressive features
In its early stages, polycythemia vera usually doesn’t produce symptoms. (Increased hematocrit may be an incidental finding.) However, as altered circulation (secondary to increased RBC mass) produces hypervolemia and hyperviscosity, the patient may complain of a feeling of fullness in the head, headache, dizziness, and other symptoms, depending on the body system affected. (See Clinical features of polycythemia vera.) Hyperviscosity may lead to thrombosis of smaller vessels with ruddy cyanosis of the nose and clubbing of the digits.
Complication
Paradoxically, hemorrhage is a complication of polycythemia vera. It may be due to defective platelet function or to hyperviscosity and the local effects from excess RBCs exerting pressure on distended venous and capillary walls.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Polycythemia:
Polycythemia - signs & symptoms
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Central and acral cyanosis
- Signs of dehydration:
- Dry mucous membranes
- No tears
- Poor skin turgor
- Heart murmur
- Clubbing
- Plethora:
- Conjunctival
- Mucous membranes
- Nail beds
- Splenomegaly:
- Present in 75% of patients with PCV
- Headache, paresthesias, dizziness, syncope
- Transient blindness
- Decreased exercise tolerance, respiratory distress, dyspnea on exertion, oxygen requirement
- Pruritus
- Lethargy
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
Polycythemia as a Cause of Symptoms or Medical Conditions
When considering symptoms of Polycythemia, it is also important to consider Polycythemia as a possible cause of other medical conditions.
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Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Polycythemia may vary on an individual basis for each patient.
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