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Hemorrhagic Diathesis

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hemorrhagic diathesis [‚hem·ə′raj·ik dī′ath·ə·səs]
(medicine)
Any condition marked by abnormal bleeding tendency.
Hemorrhagic Diathesis 

a predisposition to bleeding. Hemorrhagic diathesis may be manifested as an independent disease, associated with an impairment of blood coagulability, or as a secondary symptom of a variety of infectious diseases, avitaminoses, (for example, scurvy), and severe kidney lesions.
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These signs clearly reflected viral-induced endothelial damage triggering disseminated intravascular coagulation and a hemorrhagic diathesis commonly described in sheep and cattle (2).
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Further complications including an important hemorrhagic diathesis reliably caused by long cross-clamping time (260 minutes totally), occurred and lead to the death of a patient.
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MHF is characterized by sudden onset of fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, and frequently progresses to diarrhea and vomiting, hemorrhagic diathesis (petechiae, hematemesis, melena), and death (1).
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