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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Polycythaemia
Relative polycythaemia: dehydration (e.g. alcohol, diuretics), Gaisbock'ssyndrome
True polycythaemia:
1 °: Polycythaemia rubra vera
2°: Appropriate j in erythropoietin: chronic hypoxia, e.g. high altitude,
chronic lung disease, cyanotic heart disease. Inappropriate j in
erythropoietin, e.g. renal cell carcinoma/cysts, hepatoma, cerebellar
haemangioblastoma, fibroids



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