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Causes of Bruising

This section discusses 329 medical conditions causing Bruising. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.

Causes of Bruising:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Bruising. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Bruising:

The following list of conditions have 'Bruising' 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.

A

  • Aantibodies anti-FVIIIc syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Abdominal muscle strain ... bruising
  • Accidental injury ... Bruise
  • Acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Acquired Aplastic Anemia ... easy bruising
  • Acquired hypoprothrombinemia ... easy bruising
  • Acquired prothrombin deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Acquired pure megakaryocytic aplasia ... easy bruising
  • Acute biphenotypic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute cholinergic dysautonomia ... bruises
  • Acute erythroleukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute leukaemia of ambiguous lineage ... easy bruising
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, adult ... easy bruising
  • Acute megacaryoblastic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 1 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 2 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 3 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 4 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 5 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 6 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia type 7 ... easy bruising
  • Acute myelocytic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes related to alkylating agent ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes related to topoisomerase type II inhibitor ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, therapy related ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloid leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Acute myeloid leukemia, adult ... easy bruising
  • Acute promyelocytic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • ADP platelet receptor P2Y12, deficiency of ... easy bruising
  • Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome ... easy bruising
  • ALL-Down syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Altamira syndrome ... bruising
  • Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Amyloidosis AL ... easy bruising
  • Ankle fracture ... bruised ankle
  • Ankle sprain ... ankle bruising
  • Antepartum Eclampsia ... easy bruising
  • Anti-plasmin deficiency, congenital ... easy bruising
  • Anticoagulant poisoning ... bruising
  • Aortic dilatation- joint hypermobility- arterial tortuosity ... easy bruising
  • Aplastic anemia ... easy bruising
  • Arm fracture ... bruised arm
  • ATRUS syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome ... bruising easily
  • Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia ... bruising easily

    B

  • Back sprain ... back bruising
  • Bernard-Soulier Syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Bicep muscle strain ... bruising
  • Biliary cirrhosis ... easy bruising
  • Bleeding disorders ... bruising easily
  • Blood coagulation disorders, inherited ... easy bruising
  • Broken Collarbone ... bruised shoulder
  • Broken finger ... bruised finger
  • Broken foot ... bruised foot
  • Broken hand ... bruised hand
  • Broken jaw ... bruised jaw
  • Broken nose ... bruised nose
  • Broken shoulder blade ... bruised shoulder
  • Broken toe ... bruised toe

    C

  • Calf muscle strain ... bruising
  • Caterpillar-induced bleeding syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Caterpillar-induced bleeding syndrome - Lonomia achelous ... easy bruising
  • Caterpillar-induced bleeding syndrome - Lonomia obliqua ... easy bruising
  • Chemical poisoning - Anticoagulant rodenticide ... easy bruising
  • Chemical poisoning - Brodifacoum ... easy bruising
  • Chemical poisoning - Bromadiolone ... easy bruising
  • Chlorophacinone rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Chronic Idiopathic Myelofibrosis ... easy bruising
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders ... easy bruising
  • Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Chédiak-Higashi syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Cirrhosis of the liver ... bruising easily
  • CML-Like Syndrome, Familial ... easy bruising
  • Coagulopathy ... easy bruising
  • Coccyx injury ... bruised tailbone area
  • Congenital Afibrinogenemia ... bruises, hematomas
  • Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Congenital aplastic anemia ... easy bruising
  • Coumachlor rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Coumafuryl rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Coumatetralyl rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Cryoglobulinemia ... bruising
  • Cushing's syndrome ... bruising easily
  • Cutaneous vascularitis ... bruising

    D

  • Deafness - lymphoedema - leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Dercum syndrome ... bruises
  • Di Guglielmo I - acute ... bruises
  • DIC ... easy bruising
  • Difenacoum rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Difethialone rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Diphacinone rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Dislocation ... local bruising

    E

  • Eclampsia ... easy bruising
  • EDS V ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers Danlos syndrome type 4, autosomal dominant ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome caused by tenascin-X deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Type I ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type II ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type V ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with periventricular heterotopia ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, 6B ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, arthrochalasic type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, cardiac valvular form ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, classic type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dermatosparaxis type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dermatospraxis type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypermobility type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, kyphoscoliosis type ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, progeroid form ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, progeroid form 2 ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, tenascin-X deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, vascular type ... easy bruising
  • Elbow injury ... Bruising around the elbow
  • Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome ... bruises
  • Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Ogna type ... easy bruising
  • Essential thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Essential thrombocytosis - same as essential thrombocythemia ... easy bruising

    F

  • Factor V and factor VIII, combined deficiency of ... easy bruising
  • Factor V deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Factor VII deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - autosomal dominant ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Friuli ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Kanazawa ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Ketchikan ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Nottingham ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Padua ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - San Antonio ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Santo Domingo ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Shanghai ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - St. Louis II ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Stockton ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Taunton ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Tokyo ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Vorarlberg ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Wenatchee I ... easy bruising
  • Factor X deficiency - Wenatchee II ... easy bruising
  • Falls ... Bruising
  • Familial platelet syndrome with predisposition to acute myelogenous leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group A ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group B ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group C ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group D1 ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group D2 ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group E ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group F ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group G ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group I ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group J ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group L ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group M ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Complementation group N ... easy bruising
  • Fanconi's anemia - Estren-Dameshek variant ... easy bruising
  • Fibrinogen deficiency, congenital ... bruises, hematomas
  • Finale rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Flocoumafen rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Folgorat rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Foot injury ... Foot bruise
  • Forearm muscle strain ... bruising

    G

  • Gardner-Diamond syndrome ... bruises
  • Gaucher Disease ... bruising easily, easy bruising
  • Gaucher disease type 1 ... easy bruising
  • Gaucher disease type 2 ... easy bruising
  • Gaucher disease type 3 ... easy bruising
  • Gluteal muscle strain ... bruising
  • Glycogen storage disease type 1C ... easy bruising
  • Glycogen storage disease type 1D ... easy bruising
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type I ... easy bruising
  • Graves Disease ... Easy bruising
  • Groin muscle strain ... bruising

    H

  • Hairy cell leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Hand conditions ... Hand bruise
  • Hand fracture ... Hand bruise
  • Hand injury ... Hand bruise
  • Hand muscle strain ... bruising
  • Hantavirosis ... bruises
  • Havoc rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Head injury ... Bruising
  • Hemangioma thrombocytopenia syndrome ... bruises
  • Hemolytic uremic syndrome ... bruising
  • Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial, 1 ... easy bruising
  • Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial, 2 ... easy bruising
  • Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial, 3 ... easy bruising
  • Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, familial, 4 ... easy bruising
  • Hemophilia ... bruising, bruising easily
  • Hemophilia A ... easy bruising
  • Hemophilia B ... easy bruising
  • Hepatorenal tyrosinemia ... bruises
  • Herbal Agent overdose - Garlic ... hematoma
  • Hereditary macrothrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 2 ... easy bruising
  • Hip Flexor strain ... bruising
  • Hip muscle strain ... bruising
  • Human bite ... bruising at wound
  • Human T-lymphotropic virus type 3 ... easy bruising

    I

  • Immune thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura ... bruising
  • Indandione rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Inflammatory breast cancer ... bruised breast
  • Inheritable disorders of connective tissue ... Bruising

    K

  • Klerat rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising

    L

  • Leg muscle strain ... bruising
  • Letterer-Siwe disease ... bruises
  • Leukemia ... bruising easily
  • Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Acute, L1 ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Acute, L2 ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Acute, L3 ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Myeloid ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Aggressive-Phase ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Philadelphia-Negative ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Philadelphia-Positive ... easy bruising
  • Leukemia, T-cell, chronic ... easy bruising
  • Lichen sclerosis et atrophicus ... bruises
  • Lipedema ... bruising
  • Lower back muscle strain ... bruising
  • Lymphoblastic lymphoma ... easy bruising

    M

  • Matikus rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • May-Hegglin Anomaly ... easy bruising
  • May-Hegglin thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Moccasin snake poisoning ... bruising
  • Mouser rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Muscle strain ... bruising
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes ... Bruising
  • Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease ... easy bruising
  • Myelpathic anemia ... easy bruising

    N

  • NASH syndrome ... easy bruising
  • Neck muscle strain ... neck bruising
  • Niemann-Pick disease ... easy bruising
  • Nose conditions ... Nose bruising
  • Nutritional deficiency ... Bruising

    O

  • Obstructive Jaundice ... bruising
  • OI, Type I ... easy bruising
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta Type I ... easy bruising
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 1A ... easy bruising
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 1B ... easy bruising
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 4 ... easy bruising
  • Owren Parahemophilia ... easy bruising

    P

  • Pancytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Penis tourniquet syndrome ... bruised penis
  • Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloid leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Pindone rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Platelet disorder, familial, with associated myeloid malignancy ... easy bruising
  • Prothrombin deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Purpura ... bruising
  • Purpura simplex ... bruising easily, bruises, buttock bruise, thigh bruise
  • Purpura simplex, hereditary ... bruises

    R

  • Ratak Plus rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Rattle snake poisoning ... bruising
  • Retinopathy - aplastic anemia - neurological abnormalities ... easy bruising
  • Rib fracture ... Rib bruising
  • Rodend rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Ruptured achilles tendon ... ankle bruising

    S

  • Schroeder syndrome 1 ... easy bruising
  • Scurvy ... bruising easily, bruises
  • Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis ... easy bruising
  • Senile purpura ... bruises on back of hands
  • Shoulder dislocation ... shoulder bruising
  • Shoulder Fracture ... shoulder bruising
  • Shoulder muscle strain ... bruising
  • Shoulder sprain ... shoulder bruising
  • Skin conditions ... Bruising
  • Skull fracture ... Battle's sign
  • Sphingolipidosis ... easy bruising
  • Spleen conditions ... Chest bruising
  • Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with combined immunodeficiency ... easy bruising
  • Sprain ... joint bruising
  • Storage pool platelet disease ... easy bruising
  • Stuart factor deficiency, acquired ... easy bruising
  • Stuart factor deficiency, congenital ... easy bruising
  • Sturge-Weber Syndrome ... subdural hematoma

    T

  • T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia ... easy bruising
  • Talon rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Thigh conditions ... Bruising
  • Thigh injury ... Bruising
  • Thigh muscle strain ... bruising
  • Thiopurine S methyltranferase deficiency ... easy bruising
  • Thrombasthenia ... easy bruising
  • Thrombocytopathy ... easy bruising
  • Thrombocytopenia ... bruising
  • Thrombocytopenia - cerebellar hypoplasia - short stature ... easy bruising
  • Traumatic Brain Injury ... hematoma
  • Tricep muscle strain ... bruising

    U

  • Upper arm muscle strain ... bruising
  • Upper back muscle strain ... bruising

    V

  • Volak rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Volid rodenticide poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Von Gierke Disease ... Easy bruising
  • Von Willebrand disease ... Bruising, bruising easily, easy bruising
  • Von Willebrand disease, dominant form ... Bruising
  • Von Willebrand disease, platelet type ... Bruising, bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, recessive form ... Bruising
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 1 ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 2 ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 2A ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 2B ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 2M ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 2N ... bruising easily
  • Von Willebrand disease, type 3 ... bruising easily

    W

  • Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia ... Easy bruising
  • Willebrand disease, acquired ... Bruising
  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome ... easy bruising, hematomas
  • Wrist sprain ... wrist bruising

    X

  • X-linked dyserythropoietic anaemia and thrombocytopenia ... easy bruising
  • Xylosylprotein 4-beta-galactosyltransferase (XGPT) deficiency ... easy bruising

    Y

  • Yellow fever ... Bruising

    Conditions listing medical complications: Bruising:

    The following list of medical conditions have 'Bruising' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

    A

  • Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia ... bruising easily

    C

  • Caterpillar complication poisoning ... easy bruising
  • Cirrhosis of the liver ... bruising easily
  • Cirrhosis, familial ... easy bruising
  • Concussion ... Subdural hematoma

    M

  • Menkes Disease ... subdural hematoma

    N

  • Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory, Type IV ... bruising

    Z

  • Zenker's diverticulum ... Hematoma

    More Information About Bruising

    List of 329 causes of Bruising

    This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Bruising in our database from various sources.

    Drug side effect causes of Bruising

    The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Bruising as a side effect.

    [See detailed list of 70 drug side effect causes of Bruising]

    Drug interaction causes of Bruising:

    Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Bruising.

    • Miconazole and warfarin interaction
    • Verapamil and Propranolol interaction
    • Verapamil and Allopurinol interaction
    • Warfarin and Metronidazole interaction
    • Chlorambucil and Aspirin interaction
    [See detailed list of 7 drug interaction causes of Bruising]

    Medical Textbooks about Bruising

    Free online access to excerpts without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Bruising. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Bruising (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).

    Medical Books Excerpts
    • Purpura
    • "In a Page: Signs and Symptoms" (2004)
    • Purpura
    • "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
    • Purpura
    • "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
    • Purpura
    • "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
    • Purpura
    • "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
    • Purpura
    • "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
     

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