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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2018

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 is the likely diagnosis?

Answer options

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

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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