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What is the medical term meaning hereditary bleeding disease in which there is a prolonged clotting time?
Hemophilia is the most well-known hereditary bleeding disorder. There are other hereditary bleeding disorders including von Willebrand's disease, Christmas disease, thrombocytopenia and others.
What do you call a thin blood problem?
Thrombocytopenia. Symptoms of thin blood include spontaneous nosebleeds, prolonged bleeding from cuts, body rashes and easy bruising.
Should you experience prolonged periods when starting Depo-Provera?
Irregular and prolonged bleeding is a possible side effect of depo provera, as noted in the patient information insert. This bleeding improves with time.
When Bleeding time is prolonged in all except A. Viper bite B. idiopathic thrombocytopenia C. Hemophilia A D. Von Willebrand disease?
In the viper bite clotting occurs rapidly. The clots can cause strokes and emboli in the lungs and legs. The others cause more rapid bleeding with bruising from a small bump to the skin and many nose bleeds. They lack an anticoagulation factor.
What are the symptoms of thrombocytopenia?
Persons with this condition easily bruise and can have episodes of excess bleeding (a hemorrhage).
What is the scientific name for prolonged bleeding?
The scientific term for prolonged bleeding is "hemorrhage." It refers to excessive or prolonged bleeding from a blood vessel or organ. Hemorrhage can have various causes, including trauma, clotting disorders, or underlying medical conditions.
What is indicated by a longer-than-normal bleeding time?
A longer-than-normal bleeding time can indicate that one of several defects in hemostasis is present, including severe thrombocytopenia, platelet dysfunction, vascular defects, Von Willebrand's disease, or other abnormalities.
What deficiency can cause the condition known as thrombocytopenia?
A severe deficiency in vitamin B12 (folic acid) can lower the platelet count in the blood, causing slower clotting and possible internal bleeding.
What complications may occur with thrombocytosis?
Complications of thrombocytosis include stroke, heart attack, and formation of blood clots in the arms and legs. A doctor should be notified whenever bleeding is unexplained or prolonged or the patient develops.
What is the definition of thrombocytopenia?
deficiency of platelets in the blood. This causes bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury.
Your wife is suffering of thrombocytopenia what to do?
You take her back to the doctor who diagnosed the thrombocytopenia and get treatment for her. Thrombocytopenia is low platelet count. In extreme cases she might need a transfusion of platelets. She might also need medication such as prednisone. The condition will not go away on its own, and she is at risk of bleeding internally. Platelets are the component of blood that is repsponsible for clotting.
What are the symptons for haemophilia?
Gastrointestinal bleeding, haematuria, ecchymoses & subcutaneous heamatomas, epistaxis and prolonged bleeding from minor trauma.
