Osteomyelofibrosis
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Description:
The osteomyelofibrosis is a disease which cornerstone damage of marrow is. The marrow research under a microscope allows to see growth of connecting fabric and substitution of the hemopoietic fabric fibrous and bone fabrics. It leads to disturbance of processes of a blood formation and emergence of clinical symptoms of a disease. The osteomyelofibrosis belongs to leukoses.
Osteomyelofibrosis symptoms:
Characteristic symptoms: general weakness and weight loss, fatigue, decrease in resilience to infectious diseases. Besides, at an osteomyelofibrosis, as well as in case of other leukoses, there is an increase in the spleen participating in a hemopoiesis. Thus the human body tries to compensate decrease in development of uniform elements of blood in marrow. The osteomyelofibrosis is characterized also by pallor of integuments and slow progressing that complicates early diagnosis. Elderly people are ill it.
Osteomyelofibrosis symptoms:
* Decrease in body resistance to infectious diseases.
* Pallor of integuments.
* Pain in upper area of a stomach.
Osteomyelofibrosis reasons:
This disease can be a consequence of long impact on an organism of toxic (poisonous) substances or ionizing radiation. However the osteomyelofibrosis can be a complication of some chronic diseases, for example, of a myelosis, diseases of immune system, and also oncological diseases.
Treatment of the Osteomyelofibrosis:
- Splenectomy
- Androgens
- Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
- Hemotransfusions.
