stress polycythemia

stress polycythemia: a chronic type of relative polycythemia, seen most often in middle-aged, mildly obese males who are active, anxiety-prone, and hypertensive, occurring without the characteristic symptoms associated with polycythemia vera, i.e., without leukocytosis, splenomegaly, or thrombocytosis. Called also benign or stress erythrocytosis, GaisbÑ†ck disease, pseudopolycythemia, and benign, chronic relative, hypertonic, or spurious p.

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Polycythemia — Classification and external resources Packed cell volume diagram. ICD 10 D … Wikipedia
hypertonic polycythemia — polycythemia hypertonica stress p … Medical dictionary
benign polycythemia — chronic relative polycythemia stress p … Medical dictionary
relative polycythemia — a decrease in plasma volume without the change in red blood cell mass of absolute polycythemia, so that the erythrocytes become more concentrated (elevated hematocrit). It occurs in both acute forms (a transient condition due to marked loss of… … Medical dictionary
spurious polycythemia — 1. relative p. 2. stress p … Medical dictionary
GaisbÑ†ck disease — stress polycythemia … Medical dictionary
benign erythrocytosis — stress erythrocytosis stress polycythemia … Medical dictionary
pseudopolycythemia — pseu·do·poly·cy·the·mia (soo″do pol″e si theґme ə) 1. stress polycythemia. 2. relative polycythemia … Medical dictionary
GaisbÑ†ck disease — Gais·bÑ†ck disease (gīsґbərk) [Felix GaisbÑ†ck, German physician, 1868â€“1955] stress polycythemia … Medical dictionary
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary

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