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- Small, lightly-colored bruises
- Nosebleeds
- Black stools or blood in stools
- Prolonged bleeding at injection or injury sights
- Extreme bleeding or bleeding that is disproportionate to the severity of an injury site
- Delayed bleeding
- Internal bleeding
- Bleeding deep in the tissues
- Acquired Thrombocytopenia: If your cat's immune system begins recognizing platelets as foreign, it can begin killing off the tissue. This form of immune-mediated platelet disorder typically affects cats later in life.
- Drug-induced Clotting Disorders: Drugs such as estrogens and antibiotics can reduce a cat's platelet count and manifest as a functional clotting disorder.
- Poisoning: Some cats may eat or lick chemicals and medications that suppress the body's ability to produce platelets. This destruction of platelets may lead to a clotting disorder with rapid-onset symptoms.
- Chediak-Higashi Syndrome: This is a congenital disorder, which means a cat is born suffering from Chediak-Higashi Syndrome. Among the many symptoms of this disease is a defect in platelet formation. The hallmark of Chediak-Higashi is a pale gray coat color.
- Platelet Disorders Secondary to Other Diseases: Clotting disorders are sometimes symptomatic of other conditions and diseases. Leukemia, peritonitis, feline distemper and certain parasitic infections have been reported as contributors to clotting disorders of the platelets in cats.
- Congenital disorders (i.e., disorders present at birth)
- Autoimmune disorders
- Reactions to certain hormones or drugs
- Accidental poisoning
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