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Editor in Chief: Liudvikas Jagminas, M.D., FACEP [1] Phone: 401-729-2419; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Marcelo R. Zacarkim, M.D. [2] Kiran Singh, M.D. [3]
Overview
Causes
Life threatening causes of epistaxis include congestive heart failure and malignant hypertension. Other common causes of epistaxis include common cold, foreign bodies, aspirin and nose-picking.
Life Threatening Causes
Common Causes
- Acute sinusitis
- Allergic rhinitis
- Anticoagulation
- Aspirin
- Chronic rhinitis
- Chronic sinusitis
- Cocaine
- Common cold
- Foreign bodies
- Nose-picking
Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Abnormal nasal anatomy
- Acquired coagulation disorders
- Acquired factor XIII deficiency
- Acthar
- Acute cholinergic dysautonomia
- Acute erythroleukemia
- Acute leukemia
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia
- Acute respiratory tract infections
- Acute sinusitis
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Adenoidectomy
- ADP platelet receptor p2y12 deficiency
- Aerosol abuse
- Alcohol abuse
- Allegra
- Allergic rhinitis
- Allergies
- Ammonia
- Anemia
- Aneurysm of the carotid artery
- Angiofibroma
- Anticoagulant
- Antiplatelet medication
- Antrochoanal polyps
- Antrostomy
- Aplastic anemia
- Argentinean hemorrhagic fever
- Asphyxiation
- Aspirin
- Atherosclerosis
- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
- Autoimmune thrombocytopenia
- Bacterial upper respiratory infections
- Banti's syndrome
- Barotrauma
- Benign mucosal pemphigoid
- Benign nose tumors
- Bernard-Soulier syndrome
- Bing-Neel syndrome
- Biphenyl
- Bleeding diathesis
- Bleeding disorders
- Blood dyscrasias
- Blood vessel disorders
- Blunt trauma
- Bolivian hemorrhagic fever
- Borates rodenticide poisoning
- Brodifacoum rodenticide poisoning
- Broken nose
- Bromadiolone rodenticide poisoning
- Brown snake rodenticide poisoning
- Butorphanol
- Calcium sulfate
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Chemical irritants
- Child abuse
- Chlorophacinone rodenticide poisoning
- Cholestasis, progressive familial intrahepatic
- Christmas disease
- Chromates rodenticide poisoning
- Chronic excoriation
- Chronic irritation of the nasal mucosa
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic leukemia
- Chronic rhinitis
- Chronic sinusitis
- Chronic usage of nasal sprays
- Chronic vitamin A toxicity
- Cirrhosis
- Clemastine fumarate
- Clopidogrel
- Clove (herbal agent)
- Coagulation disorders
- Coagulopathy
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Cocaine
- Cold air
- Common cold
- Congenital afibrinogenemia
- Congenital hypoplastic anemia
- Congenital syphilis
- Congential fibrinogen deficiency
- Congestive heart failure
- Connective tissue disease
- Corticosteroids
- Corticotropin
- Coumachlor rodenticide poisoning
- Coumafuryl rodenticide poisoning
- Coumatetralyl rodenticide poisoning
- Cystic fibrosis
- Defibrination syndrome
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever
- Dental extraction
- Desmopressin
- Deviated septum
- Dialysis
- Difenacoum rodenticide poisoning
- Difethialone rodenticide poisoning
- Diphacinone rodenticide poisoning
- Diquat dibromide
- Dry air
- Endoscopic sinus procedures
- Environmental irritants
- Epstein's syndrome
- Essential hypertension
- Essential thrombocythemia
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Ethmoidal polyps
- Excessive dieting
- Facial trauma
- Facial surgery
- Factor V deficiency
- Factor VII deficiency
- Factor X deficiency
- Familial blood dyscrasias
- Familial platelet syndrome
- Fanconi's anemia
- Fexofenadine
- Flurbiprofen
- Fluticasone
- Foreign bodies
- Formaldehyde
- Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
- Ginseng
- Glycogen storage disease
- Granulomatosis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Hantavirosis
- Head injury
- Hemophilia
- Heart failure
- Hemangioma
- Hematological malignancy
- Hemoglobin Lepore syndrome
- Hemoglobin SC
- Hepatitis
- Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Heroin
- Histrelin
- Humidity
- Hypertension
- Ibuprofen
- Idiopathic fibrosing mediastinitis
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Inability of the blood to clot
- Increased nasal venous pressure
- Indandione rodenticide poisoning
- Infection
- Inhalant abuse
- Inhaled corticosteroids
- Inhaled irritants
- Inherited coagulation disorders
- Intranasal rhabdomyosarcoma
- Inverted papilloma
- Isotretinoin
- Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
- Lenvatinib
- Leprosy
- Leukemia
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
- Localized skin infection
- Loratadine
- Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
- Machupo virus
- Malignant hypertension
- Malnutrition
- Matikus rodenticide poisoning
- Maxillary sinus carcinoma
- Maxillofacial injury
- May Hegglin anomaly
- Medications
- Melanoma
- Menopause
- Metaldehyde
- Middle ear barotrauma
- Mouser rodenticide poisoning
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
- Mucormycosis
- Mucosal irritation of the nasal mucosa
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myeloproliferative diseases
- Narcotics
- Nasal cancer
- Nasal cannula
- Nasal colonization with staphylococcus aureus
- Nasal congestion
- Nasal diphtheria
- Nasal excoriation
- Nasal foreign body
- Nasal fracture
- Nasal infection
- Nasal obstruction
- Nasal polyp
- Nasal septum deviation
- Nasal sprays
- Nasal steroids
- Nasal surgery
- Nasal trauma
- Nasal tuberculosis
- Nasal type natural killer/t-cell lymphoma
- Nasal ulceration
- Nasogastric tube placement
- Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
- Nasopharyngeal cancers
- Nasotracheal intubation
- Neoplasm
- Non-allergic rhinitis
- Nose-picking
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever
- Orbital decompression
- Osler-weber-rendu disease
- Owren parahemophilia
- Palbociclib
- Pancytopenia
- Pennyroyal oil
- People with blood group O
- Pertussis
- PFIC
- Phosphorous
- Pindborg tumor
- Pindone rodenticide poisoning
- Platelet disorders
- Polychondritis
- Polycythemia vera
- Post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm
- Posttraumatic pseudoaneurysm of internal carotid artery
- Prasugrel
- Pregnancy
- Primary hypertension
- Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
- Prothrombin deficiency
- Purpura
- Pyogenic granuloma
- Ramucirumab
- Rapid weight loss
- Ratak plus rodenticide poisoning
- Relapsing fever
- Renal artery stenosis
- Renal dialysis
- Renal disease
- Respiratory tract infection
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Rheumatic fever
- Rhinitis
- Rhinocerebral mucormycosis
- Rhinocerebral zygomycosis
- Rhinoplasty
- Rhinoscleroma
- Rhinosporidiosis
- Riociguat
- Rodend rodenticide poisoning
- Rodenticides
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroma
- Sclerotic vessels
- Second trimester pregnancy
- Septal deviation
- Septal granulomas
- Septal perforation
- Septal surgery
- Septoplasty
- Sickle cell anemia
- Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma
- Sinus surgery
- Sinus tumor
- Sinusitis
- Skull fracture
- Soft tissue infection
- Solvent abuse
- Sphenoidal fracture
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Stachybotrys chartarum
- Staphylococcal furuncles
- Streptococcus pyogenes infection
- Stuart factor deficiency
- Sulphuric acid
- Superior vena cava syndrome
- Systemic infection with nasal congestion
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Talon rodenticide poisoning
- Telfast
- Tetrachloroethylene
- Tetryl
- Thrombasthenia
- Thrombocytopenic purpura
- Thrombocytopathy
- Thrombocytopenia
- Tiagabine
- Tobacco smoking
- Trauma
- Trauma to Little's area
- Nasal corticosteroids
- Tuberculosis
- Turbinectomy
- Typhoid fever
- Unilateral choanal atresia
- Upper respiratory infection
- valproic acid
- Vanadium
- Vascular disorders
- Vascular malformation
- Viral rhinitis
- Viral upper respiratory infections
- Vitamin C deficiency
- Vitamin K deficiency
- Volak rodenticide poisoning
- Volatile inhalants
- Volid rodenticide poisoning
- Von Gierke Disease
- Von Willebrand disease
- Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
- Warfarin
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Weil syndrome
- Whooping cough
- X-linked dyserythropoietic anemia and thrombocytopenia
- Zygomycosis