Hemorrhagic diathesis
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Bleeding diathesis is an unusual susceptibility to bleeding (hemorrhage) due to a defect in the system of coagulation. Several types are distinguished, ranging from mild to lethal.
Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Hemorrhagic diathesis
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
Most Common Causes
- Anticoagulation therapy
- Hepatopathies
- Hereditary coagulopathies
- Thrombocyte impairment
- Vitamin K deficiency
Other Causes
- Activated blood clotting factors
- Acute leukemias
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Afibrinogenemia
- Alcoholism
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Amyloidosis
- Anaphylactic shock
- Anti-aggregation with aspirin
- Aspirin-like defect
- Avitaminosis C
- Bacterial Endocarditis
- Bacterial Meningitis
- Bernard-Soulier Syndrome (BSS)
- Biliary Cirrhosis
- Burns
- Carcinomas
- Cephalosporins
- Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
- Chronic hypercortisolism
- Cirrhosis
- Coagulation factor deficiency
- Consumption coagulopathy
- Cranio cerebral trauma
- Cryoglobulinemia
- Cyanotic cardiac vitium
- Dietary deficiencies
- Diffuse Intravascular Coagulation
- Diptheria
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
- Drugs
- Dysfibrinogenemia
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Faulty intestinal flora
- Fibrinogenolysis
- Fibrinolytic fission products
- Fibrinolysis therapy
- Folic acid deficiency
- Glanzmann thrombasthenia
- Graft vs. Host Disease
- Grey platelet syndrome
- Hegglin's anomaly
- HELLP Syndrome (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, Low Platelet count)
- Hemophilia A & B
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
- Hyperglobulinemia
- Hypothermia
- Influenza
- Intrauterine embryo death
- Lactic acidosis
- Large aneurysms
- Large operations
- Large vascular prostheses
- Leptospirosis
- Leukemia
- Malabsorption
- Malaria
- Marfan's Syndrome
- Measles
- Metastases
- Miscellaneous heritable disorders of connective tissue
- Myeloproliferative syndrome
- Myelodysplasia
- Myocardial Infarction
- Nonthrombocytopenic purpura
- Osler's Disease
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Pachymeningeosis haemorrhagica interna
- Paraproteinemia
- Parenteral nutrition
- Pernicious anemia
- Plasminogen activators
- Pocks
- Premature placenta ablation
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Pupura fulminans
- Rickettsia
- Scarlet Fever
- Scurvy
- Senile-atrophic/purpura senilis
- Sepsis
- Septic abortion
- Severe gastrointestinal bleeding
- Severe hepatopathy
- Shock
- State after circulatory arrest
- Splenomegaly with portal hypertension
- Syphilis
- Telangiectasia
- Therapy with cholestyramin
- Thrombopathic thrombopenia
- Thrombasthenia
- Toxoplasmosis
- Uremia
- Varicella
- Vasculitis
- Vitamin K deficiency
- Von Willenbrand's Disease
- Warfarin
- Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
References
- ↑ Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:77 ISBN 1591032016
- ↑ Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:68 ISBN 140510368X
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
