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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2017

A 28-year-old woman complains of skin hemorrhages after minor traumas and spontaneous appearance of hemorrhages on the front of her torso and extremities. On examination: the skin is variegated (old and new hemorrhages), bleeding gums. Blood platelets - 20 × 109/l; in the bone marrow there is increased number of megakaryocytes and no platelet production. Treatment with steroid hormones was effective. What disease is it?

Answer options

  1. Acute vascular purpura
  2. Hemophilia
  3. Rendu-Osler-Weber disease (Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia)
  4. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
  5. Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Correct answer

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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