pregnancy in PV

Introduction Therapeutic phlebotomy—the controlled removal of blood for therapeutic purposes—is a cornerstone of management in Polycythemia Vera (PV) and is used for relieving symptoms in secondary polycythaemias. While the practice of bloodletting has ancient origins, modern therapeutic phlebotomy bears little resemblance to its historical predecessor. Historical bloodletting was rooted in humoral theory and applied indiscriminately…