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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. | '''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. | ||
Revision as of 12:07, 10 August 2012
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
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
Suggested Reading and Key General References
Suggested Links and Web Resources
For Patients