Hemorrhagic diathesis

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
In alphabetical order.

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

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