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Fragile small blood vessels
Fragile small blood vessels is a clinical finding in which a person's blood vessels are weak, which can be due to diabetes or to inherited disorders affecting connective tissue.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 27-year old male asked:
What diseases or cancers are associated with bruising or fragile blood vessels only around the eyes in a young adult male?
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A 37-year old male asked:
There were few anal bleeding, little blood flowed, now i noticed a broken blood vessel in the eye big enough.Is it a lack of vit.K, capillary fragility?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Around my eyes almost like light bruising and fragile blood vessels. Do I have a tumor in my head? My ALT is in the 40s and my WBC is 3.00 everything else is normal. But the skin around my eyes look so sickly. Please help?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Normal CBC and Metabolic Panel. Around the skin of both eyes, the blood vessels are fragile and break easily. Skin around eyes looks sickly and discolored. My Grandfather died of Myeloma very young in his 40s. Does this look like Amyloidosis?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Me and my boyfriend Participate in bdsm and we just where playing around and now I have a small lump on my butt where he was hitting me.. is this a busted blood vessel? Its happen once before just curious if I should worried about it? Thank you b
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A 76-year old male asked:
Is there a cure for blurrness due to stroke of small blood vessel decease, age related 76 yrs.
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A 43-year old female asked:
I have a small dark purple spot on left side of tounge..Could this be a blood vessel?
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A 26-year old female asked:
On my susceptibility weighted imaging scan there were two small black spots. Dr said these were just blood vessels. How can he know?
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A 47-year old female asked:
I was told I have small blood vessel of the foot. how is that treated?
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A 44-year old asked:
Could nitric oxide make my small blood vessels in my penis open back up..?
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A 31-year old male asked:
My sister has this persistent"small blood vessel vasculitis" for last3 weeks and despite steroids, no better. Any help?
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A member asked:
Small, round blue spots under the skin--appear to follow blood vessels--disappear with pressure, return when pressure is relieved?
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A 20-year old male asked:
I have a small reddish dot Right below the head of my penis to me it looks kind of like a small blood vessel it stands out from the rest of my skin ?
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A 35-year old male asked:
Yesterday I had a subcutaneous injection in my stomach and I accidentally hit the blood vessel. The blood came out and I developed a lump( small hard area) will it go or not?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have a small clear bump on my eyeball and it is surrounded buy small blood vessels ?
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A 45-year old female asked:
What does this mean: flow void is identified in major intracerebral blood vessels. Small prominent perivascular spaces in inferior basal ganglia bil?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Red blood vessels under my breast? All gathered in one small area?
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A female asked:
11/24 I woke up and m eye looked like I had broken a blood vessel. A small corner had an red blood portion. 3 days later more of the eye is bloody.
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A 35-year old male asked:
Blood vessel on forearm feels firm in 1-2cm location.What can be the cause?MRI & xray normal in area & vessel.what can it be, also small bump there.
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A 64-year old male asked about a 74-year old male:
What exactly is congestive heart failure? A friend was Dx'd with it, he was told his blood vessels were too small and that only medications could be given. What kind of medications, and what about blood vessel size? What would be life span?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Hello. I have been having a rednees on the tip of the penis (small area) that goes away and comes back in matter of days for a few weeks now . No discharge , no pain during urination , blood vessels on the penis sem to be a bit more redish and visual?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Hello I have a small bruise like on my penis. It does not hurt but its little purplish. Is it safe to have sex? Looks like a popped a blood vessel or something?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Why do I have a small purple bruise under my left breast? Its kinda like a bruise, it has purple veins but doesnt hurt at all & has been there for a couple months? Looks more like broken blood vessels. I havent taken any nsaids in over a year.
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A 30-year old female asked:
Should i worry about a small broken blood vessel only eye? Pinhead size spot on my eyeball
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A 31-year old male asked:
Diagnosed central mucoepidermoid carcinoma n underwent radio years ago, non metastatic. Now small blood vessel vasculitis, all over. Any connection?
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A 51-year old male asked:
My husband was told that if got in an airplane would cause to much pressure in the blood vessels and they would bust? Small vessel disease of brain
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A male asked:
I have a small internal blood clot below my pinky finger about 0.7 mm in diameter i think its not affecting blood vessels but there is one about 2 cm ?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Never had sex. My penis glans is red, somedays worse than other days. There are small red blood vessels and small red dots on the glans as well. It worsens as the penis hardends. What is it? should I be worried?
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A 64-year old female asked:
I have broken blood vessels on the roof of my mouth and some small white lumps all around, what could that be?
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A 42-year old male asked:
Is it possible to have a normal MRI of brain (without contrast), but still have a clot or clots in small/medium blood vessels of brain?
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