In the course of an investigation of cyclooxygenase and 12-lipoxygenase activity in platelets of patients with myeloproliferative syndrome receiving treatment with interferon-alpha 2 patients showed unusual results which have not been reported so far. Both patients had thrombocytosis, in one case associated with polycythaemia. In platelets of both patients, a reduced conversion of exogenous 14C arachidonic acid to TXB2 was observed accompanied by a shift in conversion to PGE2 and 12-HETE in one patient and to 12-HETE alone in the other before therapy. These findings were paradoxically associated with evidence of enhanced platelet activation in vivo. Treatment of both patients with interferon-alpha resulted in reversal of the biochemical abnormalities and in clinical remission.

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