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What is a “platelet millionaire”?
a
A case in which the patient won the lottery
b
A case in which one million platelets are being produced every second
c
A case in which the platelet count is > million x 10^9/L
d
A case in which the platelet count is > million/microliter
Yes! We now routinely talk about platelet counts as 10/L. The millionaire refers to a time when the platelet count was expressed per microliter.
The original description of platelet millionaire:



Sort conditions (on top) to appropriate buckets (on bottom)
Infection
Inflammation
Mutated TPO-R
Aortic stenosis
Hemolysis
CML
MDS/MPN-RS-T
Iron deficiency
Cirrhosis
PV
Irritable bowel syndrome
Congestive heart failure
Guillain Barre syndrome
ET
Surgery
Cancer
Bleeding
Hypothyroidism
Primary thrombocytosis
Secondary thrombocytosis
No link to thrombocytosis
Abbreviations, ET, essential thrombocythemia; PV, polycythemia vera; CML, chronic myelogenous leukemia; MDS/MPN-RS-T, myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasm with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis; TPO-R, thrombopoietin receptor.
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