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Would you be comfortable using a JAK inhibitor in a patient with baseline thrombocytosis?

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Rheumatology · Harvard Medical School

Knowing the etiology of this patient's thrombocytosis is a critical piece of information required before determining whether a JAK- inhibitor drug could be safely prescribed. Mutations in JAK-2 are responsible for several myelodysplastic disorders, some of which present with thrombocytosis. Therefor...

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