This is polycythemia vera. Patients need to routinely have blood drawn and it is discarded. Kind of like how “doctors” of old would bloodlet patients. In this case it is needed. The extra red blood cells also increase a patient’s iron (hemoglobin is based on iron) and can lead to organ failure and other disorders.
If you’re talking blood volume, I cannot recall hearing or studying any disorder in hematology class, nor ever coming across a disease like that.
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This is polycythemia vera. Patients need to routinely have blood drawn and it is discarded. Kind of like how “doctors” of old would bloodlet patients. In this case it is needed. The extra red blood cells also increase a patient’s iron (hemoglobin is based on iron) and can lead to organ failure and other disorders.
If you’re talking blood volume, I cannot recall hearing or studying any disorder in hematology class, nor ever coming across a disease like that.