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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Bleeding under skin. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: determines if acute or chronic; acquired or inherited.
Why: purpura ( multiple small hemorrhages into the skin or mucous membranes); petechiae (small pinhead size purpura); ecchymoses ( large purpura).
Why: if palpable it suggests due to an underlying vasculitis affecting small vessels e.g. polyarteritis nodosa; if not palpable it suggests due to a platelet defect.
Why: suggests a disturbance of coagulation.
Why: suggests the presence of a systemic bleeding defect.
Why: if immediate suggests platelet defect; if delayed i.e. 24 hrs after trauma it suggests a coagulation factor deficiency.
Why: e.g. tooth extraction, circumcision, pregnancy - if normal response, suggests an acquired not inherited problem.
Why: may suggest acute Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) especially in children.
Why: may suggest trauma as cause of bleeding under skin.
Why: Acquired bleeding disorders can occur with liver disease, renal failure, lupus erythematosus and some cancers such as Multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis.
Why: Acquired bleeding disorders may be due to certain prescribed medications e.g. aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, anticoagulant therapy, thiazide diuretics, chloramphenicol, cancer chemotherapy drugs, gold, heparin, quinine, quinidine, sulphonamides.
Why: Alcoholic cirrhosis can cause an acquired bleeding disorder.
Why: e.g. blood in urine, heavy menstrual periods, bleeding nose, bleeding gums, swollen painful joints, rectal bleeding? - suggests presence of a systemic bleeding defect.
Why: may suggest malignancy such as leukemia.
Why: may suggest lupus erythematosus which can cause an autoimmune thrombocytopenia.
Why: may suggest myeloproliferative cancers that can cause an acquired bleeding disorder or iron deficiency secondary to blood loss.
The following list of conditions have 'Bleeding under skin' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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