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Bleeding Disorder

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source: FP Notebook

year: 2017

authors: Scott Moses

summary/abstract:

Epidemiology
-Bleeding Gums, Epistaxis and easy bruisability are common in healthy patients (occurs in up to 45%)
-Menorrhagia is very common in women (5-10%)

Signs: Clinical Clues
-Spontaneous hemarthrosis, muscle Hemorrhage or retroperitoneal bleeding
-Mucocutaneous bleeding (Petechiae, Epistaxis, Gingival Bleeding, GI Bleeding, GU Bleeding)
-Hepatomegaly
-Splenomegaly

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