Bleeding Disorders

Bruising from a bleeding disorder

Bleeding disorders are also known as disorders of hemostasis. Having a bleeding disorder means that a child’s body has problems forming blood clots to stop bleeding. As a result, the child will bleed longer than a child who does not have a bleeding disorder. Bleeding disorders can be genetic, passed down from one’s parents or acquired.

Genetic bleeding disorders include:

• Hemophilia A
• Hemophilia B
• von Willebrand Disease
• Rare Bleeding Disorders
  • Congenital Afibrinogenemia and Hypofibrinogenemia
  • Factor II (2) deficiency or prothrombin deficiency
  • Factor V (5) deficiency
  • Factor VII (7) deficiency
  • Factor X (10) deficiency
  • Factor XI (11) deficiency
  • Factor XIII (13) deficiency
•  Platelet Disorders
•  Adhesion Disorders
  •  Bernard-Soulier Syndrome
•  Aggregation Disorders
  •  Glanzmann’s  Thromboasthenia
•  Secretion Disorders
  • Storage Pool Deficiency
• Disorders of Fibrinolysis

Symptoms of a bleeding disorder include:

• Excessive and easy bruising
• Bleeding takes a long time to stop
• Nose bleeds that last longer than 10 minutes
• Frequent nose bleeds
• Abnormal menstrual (period) bleeding