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Anticoagulant Rodenticide Toxicity (view source)
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===Clinical Signs===
===Clinical Signs===
+The diagnosis of anticoagulant rodenticide toxicosis is
+dependent on a thorough patient history and physical
+examination, and appropriate haemostatic testing. The
+likelihood of exposure to a specific rodenticide may be
+difficult to reliably determine. The onset of clinical signs
+is delayed for several days post-exposure while the plasma
+concentrations of the vitamin K-dependent clotting
+factors become depleted. Symptoms may be non-specific
+if there is internal bleeding, and might include depression,
+weakness, pallor, dyspnoea, abdominal swelling,
+or even sudden death. Other possible signs include
+anaemia, external haematomas, bruising, excessive
+bleeding from venepuncture sites or other sites of injury,
+epistaxis, haematemesis, haematochezia, melaena, haematuria
+and/or lameness.
===Diagnostic Imaging===
===Diagnostic Imaging===