Myeloproliferative and thrombotic burden and treatment outcome of thrombocythemia and polycythemia patients

Table 2 The type and number of microvascular thrombotic events in the 1990 Bergamo study are very characteristic for untreated thrombocythemia[11]

Cortelazzo et al[11] 1990	No. of patients	No. ofevents
Total	20	32
Arterial	17	25
Digital ischemia		7
Transient ischemic attacks		15
Stroke		0
Myocardial infarction		3
Venous	3	7
Superficial Thrombophlebitis		3
Femoral DVT		1
Unusual localization DVT		3
Bleeding complications	4

DVT: Deep vein thrombosis.