Comparison between different prognostic scores in Essential Thrombocythemia

What is it about?

Comparing different thrombosis risk scores in Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) reveals slight differences in risk stratification of patients with these disease. We here found a correlation between the thrombosis risk classes and survival and hereby demonstrated the strong impact of thrombotic risk on survival in patients with ET

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Why is it important?

It is important to give the actual weight to thrombotic risk in ET and results of our study may open queries on possible cytoreductive treatment in "low-risk" ET patients