The proliferation index of specific bone marrow cell compartments from myelodysplastic syndromes is associated with the diagnostic and patient outcome.

However, the PI of these precursors showed a trend to decline in high-risk MDS, reaching minimal proliferation values in RAEB-2, intermediate-2, high-risk IPSS MDS and AML patients (p≤0.01 vs . normal BM, RA and low-risk MDS) ( Table 2 ).

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