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A prospective comparison between treatment with phlebotomy alone and with interferon-alpha in patients with polycythemia vera
Interferon alpha (α-IFN) is increasingly used for the treatment of patients affected by polycythemia vera (PV). As prior studies are difficult to interpret in view of the lack of appropriate controls, we under...
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Sustained complete hematological remission in essential thrombocythemia after discontinuation of long-term α-IFN treatment
In essential thrombocythemia patients α-IFN rapidly reduces platelet count, and it is also able to maintain a low count during long-term treatment. In order to verify if long-term IFN treatment can produce sus...
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Interferon alpha-2b in the long-term treatment of essential thrombocythemia
We treated 35 patients affected with essential thrombocythemia (ET) with interferon (IFN) alpha-2b. Our treatment scheme consisted of (a) a 6-month induction phase and (b) a continuous maintenance phase. Durin...