Purpura is the discolouration of the skin or mucous membranes due to haemorrhage from small blood vessels. Signs and symptoms of purpura vary according to type.

Aug 14, 2017 · What is bleeding? Bleeding, also called haemorrhage, is the term used to describe blood escaping from the blood vessels. Bleeding from the skin occurs if there is an injury to the skin …

Purpura fulminans is a rare, rapidly progressive and often fatal form of acute disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It is marked by intravascular coagulation leading to thrombotic occlusion of small …

Cutaneous vasculitis is inflammation involving capillaries or blood vessels in the skin. Purpura, petechiae, or nodules may be present, as shown in the images below.

The patient developed widespread petechiae and non- blanching purpura on her face, trunk, and limbs. Overnight she developed small blisters on her lower legs and oral erosions. Over subsequent days …

Purpura — bleeding into the skin, either as petechiae (small red, purple or brown spots) or ecchymoses (bruises); purpura does not blanch with pressure (diascopy). Morphology Morphology is the form or …

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Consumptive coagulopathy, DIC, DIC syndrome, Defibrination syndrome, Haemorrhagic fibrinogenolysis, Consumptive thrombohaemorrhagic disorder, …

Schamberg disease (progressive pigmented purpura) Schamberg disease is the most common type of capillaritis. Regular or irregular crops of red-brown flat patches with cayenne pepper spots on their …

Inconsolable crying Epileptic fits (seizures). Meningococcaemia Signs on the skin: Petechiae (rash of small red or purple spots [purpura] that do not disappear when pressure is applied to the skin) occur …

Henoch-Schönlein purpura, anaphylactoid purpura. Authoritative facts about the skin from DermNet New Zealand.