Bleeding Disorders Types

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Bleeding disorders can be inherited , or they can be acquired, meaning you develop them during your lifetime. Acquired bleeding disorders are more common than inherited bleeding disorders.

You may develop a bleeding disorder if something, such as a disease or a medicine, causes your body to stop making blood clotting factors or causes the blood clotting factors to stop working correctly. Problems with your blood vessels can also lead to bleeding.

Acquired bleeding disorders include:

• Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
• Liver disease-associated bleeding
• Vitamin K deficiency bleeding
• Von Willebrand disease and hemophilia, which are most often inherited but may develop as a result of a medical condition
• Rare tangles of blood vessels, called arteriovenous malformations, which can form in the brain or other parts of your body and cause bleeding before birth or later in life
• Other rare types of acquired bleeding disorders, such as factor I, II, and V deficiencies, which are named for the clotting factor causing the problem

Inherited bleeding disorders include:

• Combined deficiency of the vitamin K–dependent clotting factors (VKCFD), which is caused by a problem with clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X
• Hemophilia A, the most common type of hemophilia, which occurs when you are missing or have low levels of clotting factor VIII
• Hemophilia B, which occurs when you are missing or have low levels of clotting factor IX
• Hemophilia C, which is rare and occurs when you are missing or have low levels of clotting factor XI
• Von Willebrand disease (VWD), the most common inherited bleeding disorder, which has different types that are numbered based on how common each type is and the amount of bleeding problems they cause
• Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a rare inherited disorder that causes tangles of blood vessels in different parts of the body, which can lead to bleeding
• Other rare types of inherited bleeding disorders, such as factor I, II, V, V + VIII, VII, X, XI, or XIII deficiencies, which are named after the clotting factor causing the problem

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