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Differentiating Epistaxis from other Diseases

In alphabetical order

• Alcoholism
• Allergic rhinitis
• Aortic isthmus stenosis
• Aplastic anemia
• Arteriosclerosis
• Arteriovenous malformation
• Avitaminosis C
• Bleeding septal polyp
• Chronic hepatitis
• Cirrhosis
• Coagulopathy
• Coarctation of the aorta
• Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
• Drugs such as aspirin, clopidogrel, coumadin, heparin, enoxaparin, bivalirudin, fondaparinux, eptifibatide, abciximab, tirofiban
• Dry climate
• Dust
• Erythrocythemia
• External trauma
• Forceful nose blowing
• Hemophilia
• Hemorrhage of Kiesselbach's area
• Hypertension
• Infection
• Influenza
• Internal trauma
• Juvenile nasopharyngeal fibroma
• Leukemia
• Liver failure
• Malaria
• Measles
• Multiple myeloma
• Nasal diphtheria
• Nasal foreign body
• Nasal fractures
• Nasal polyps
• Nasal syphilis
• Neoplasm
• Nose picking
• Osler's disease
• Other trauma to the face
• Pancytopenia
• Postoperative
• Psittacocis
• Repeated cocaine use
• Rhinitis sicca
• Scarlet fever
• Septal deviation or perforation
• Sinus fracture
• Sinusitis
• Snakebites
• Streptococcal infection
• Telangiectasias
• Thrombocytopathy
• Thrombocytopenia
• Typhoid fever
• Uremia
• Vapors
• Vitamin K deficiency
• Von Willebrand's disease
• Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
• Wegener's granulomatosis
• Werlhof's disease
• Winter months