Hi. My mother is 60, 1.60m and 80 Kg. She has a diagnosis of polycytemia vera. When we discovered she had big values of hematic cells, platelets and leukocytes. At the hospital in Romania they took out 8 bags of blood in 8 days. Then her hematic cells dropped at 8 (from 22), but the values of leukocytes and platelets were still high (23 000 and 1000 0000) Then they gave her a medicine called hydea and in 10 days the  leukocytes dropped at 3000 and the platelets at 35000. She interrupted the treatment and 4 days ago she had the value of platelets at 107 000 and today it is 800 000 (in 4 days). Please help me. I need a clinic in Europe where to go. What do you advise me to do? I dont want to loose her
Hi, dairy have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. She has polycythemia Vera.  It is a myeloproliferative disease.  She needs chemotherapy. Phlebotomy is the easy and cost-effective treatment to control her count. Consult hematologist and take treatment accordingly. Hope I have answered your question, if you have doubt then I will be happy to answer. Thanks for using Chat Doctor. Wish you a very good health.