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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===