Bleeding Diathesis Diagnosed After Cleft Palate Repair

Bleeding diathesis is a clinical definition in which patients have uncontrolled bleeding problems for different reasons. The most common etiologic factor for bleeding diathesis is Von Willebrand Disease followed by hemophilia. In the newborn period, patients with bleeding diathesis present as CNS bleeding or uncontrolled bleeding from the umbilical stump. In most cases, however, diagnosis is done later on after the development of more obvious signs of bleeding diathesis, such as easy bruising, increased menstrual or nasal bleeding and hemarthrosis. Other cases were diagnosed after an uncontrolled bleeding following a surgical intervention, such as tooth extraction, or an accident. In this case, bleeding diathesis was diagnosed following the repair of complete cleft palate. As the age of cleft palate repair decreases, it seems that more cases with bleeding diathesis and cleft lip / cleft palate will be diagnosed.