Causes of Cyanosis

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Conditions listing medical complications: Cyanosis:

The following list of medical conditions have 'Cyanosis' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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List of 448 causes of Cyanosis

This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Cyanosis in our database from various sources.

• Aberrant subclavian artery abnormality - cyanosis
• Accelerated silicosis - bluish skin
• Acid-Base Imbalance - cyanosis
• ACPS III - cyanosis
• Acrocephalopolydactyly - Cardiac Disease - Ear, Skin and Lower Limb Defects - cyanosis
• Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type III - cyanosis
• Acrocyanosis - blue and cold hands
• Acrodynia - cyanosis
• Acrofacial dysostosis Rodriguez type - cyanotic heart disease
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Infant - blue skin
• Acute Silicosis - bluish skin
• Adrenal hemorrhage, neonatal - cyanosis
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome - cyanosis
• Airway Obstruction - cyanosis
• Al Gazali Aziz Salem syndrome - cyanotic heart disease
• Alkaptonuria - bluish ear cartilage
• Alveolar capillary dysplasia - cyanosis
• Alveolar hypoventilation
• Alveolitis, extrinsic allergic - cyanosis with prolonged exposure
• Anchovy poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• Angineurotic oedema
• Aniline dyes
• Anophthalmia with pulmonary hypoplasia - cyanotic heart disease
• Anoxemia - cyanosis
• Aortic arches defect - cyanosis
• Apple seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Apricot seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Arterial hyposaemia
• Arterial occlusion
• Arteriosclerotic occlusive disease
• Asbestos conditions - Cyanosis
• Asiatic porpoise poisoning - cyanosis
• Asphyxia - cyanosis
• Asphyxia neonatorum - cyanosis
• Aspiration of foreign body
• Asthma - cyanosis
• Atrial myxoma, familial - cyanosis
• Atrial septal defect (ostium primum)
• Autoimmune Myocarditis - Cyanosis
• Beau's syndrome - bluish skin
• Benign tracheal stenosis after tracheostomy
• Berylliosis - cyanosis in chronic cases with prolonged exposure
• Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease - cyanosis
• Bilateral abductor paralysis
• Bindewald-Ulmer-Muller syndrome - cyanosis
• Bird cherry seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Bitter almond seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Blue baby - blueness
• Blue nevus
• Blue rubber bleb nevus - blue-black hemangiomas
• Bonefish poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• Bronchiectasis
• Bronchiolitis - cyanosis
• Bronchopulmonary dysplasia - episodic cyanosis
• Brown snake poisoning - cyanosis
• Bruising
• Buerger's disease
• Bulging veins
• Carbamate insecticide poisoning - cyanosis
• Cardiac malformation - cyanosis
• Cast syndrome - cyanosis
• Certain medications
• Chemical pneumonia - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - 1,3-Dinitrobenzene - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - 2,4-Dinitrotoluene - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - 4,4-Methylenebis - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Acrylonitrile - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Adiponitrile - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Ammonium Nitrate - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Aniline - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Anisidine (o,p-Isomers) - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Antifreeze - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Antu - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Azinphos-methyl - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Carbaryl - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Chlorate salts - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Chlorobenzene - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Demeton-S-methyl - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Diazinon - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Dichlorvos - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Dicrotophos - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Dinitrocresol - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Dioxathion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Disulfoton - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Endosulfan - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Epichlorohydrin - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Ethion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Ethylene Glycol - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Ethylene Glycol Dinitrate - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Ethylene Oxide - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Fensulfothion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Fenthion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Jet Fuel-4 - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - m-Anisidine - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Malathion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Methidathion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Methiocarb - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Methomyl - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Mineral-Based Crankcase Oil - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Mouth Wash - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - N,N-Dimethyl-P-Toluidine - blue skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nickel Carbonyl - blue skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrates - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Nitric Acid - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrites - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrobenzene - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Nitroethane - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nitroglycerin - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrophenol - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrophenol Urea - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Nitrotoluene - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - o-Anisidine - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - p-Anisidine - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Paraphenylenediamine - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Parathion - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Pepper Spray - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Petroleum Distillates - Naphtha - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Phenol - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Phosdrin - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Profenofos - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Propane - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Propylene Glycol Dinitrate - bluish skin
• Chemical poisoning - Strychnine - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Sulfur Dioxide - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Terbufos - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Tetraethyl Pyrophosphate - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Thioglycolic Acid - cyanosis
• Chemical poisoning - Trichloroethylene - cyanosis
• Cherry laurel seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Cherry seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Chokecherry seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Choking
• Cholesterol pneumonia - cyanosis
• Chromosome 22, trisomy - cyanosis
• Chronic berylliosis - cyanosis
• Chronic bronchitis - cyanosis
• Chronic obstructive lung disease
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Chronic pneumonitis of infancy - cyanosis
• Cirrhosis of liver
• Coal worker's pneumoconiosis - cyanosis
• Codeine overdose - bluish skin
• Cold exposure
• Cold weather
• Comly syndrome - bluish skin
• Congenital arteriovenous shunt - cyanosis
• Congenital cardiovascular malformations - cyanosis
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia - cyanosis
• Congenital heart defects - cyanosis
• Congenital heart disease
• Congenital heart septum defect - bluish skin
• Congenital methaemoglobinaemia
• Congenital mitral malformation - cyanosis
• Congenital tracheal stenosis - cyanotic episodes
• Conotruncal heart malformations - cyanosis
• Convulsions, benign familial infantile, 1 - cyanosis
• COPD - cyanosis
• Cor biloculare - cyanosis
• Cor Triatriatum - cyanosis
• Coral snake poisoning - cyanosis
• Coronary arteries - congenital malformation - cyanosis
• Croup - cyanosis
• Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita - blue marbled skin appearance
• Cyanosis
• Cyanotic congenital heart disease
• Darvocet overdose - bluish skin
• Deep vein thrombosis
• Deletion 22q11 - cyanosis
• Demerol overdose - bluish skin
• Dermatomyositis - bluish purple discolored skin rash
• Diaphragmatic hernia, congenital - cyanosis
• Diaphragmatic paralysis - blue fingers
• Diffuse lung disease
• Dilaudid overdose - bluish skin
• Diphosphoglycerate mutase deficiency of erythrocyte - cyanosis
• Double outlet - right ventricle II - cyanosis
• Double outlet - right ventricle IV - cyanosis
• Double outlet right ventricle - bluish skin
• Dressler (D.)syndrome - cyanosis
• Drowning - cyanosis
• Drug overdose
• Ductus arteriosus, patent reversed flow - cyanosis
• Duodenal atresia tetralogy of Fallot - cyanosis
• Ebstein's anomaly - cyanosis
• Ectopic pregnancy - bluish discoloration around belly button
• Eisenmenger Syndrome - cyanosis
• Eisenmenger's syndrome
• Emphysema - cyanosis
• Emphysema, congenital lobar - cyanosis in severe forms
• Epiglotitis - cyanosis
• Erythromelalgia - red or purple skin patches
• Esophageal Atresia and/or Tracheoesophageal Fistula - cyanosis
• Esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula - cyanosis
• Ethylmalonic aciduria - blue feet
• Eucalyptus Oil poisoning - cyanosis
• Fallot syndrome - cyanosis
• Fallot's tetralogy
• Familial emphysema - cyanosis
• Familial interstitial fibrosis - cyanosis
• Farmer's lung - cyanosis
• Fibrosing alveolitis - cyanosis
• Grand mal seizures - cyanosis
• Hamman-Rich syndrome - cyanosis
• Heart attack - cyanosis
• Heart failure
• Hemangiomatosis, familial pulmonary capillary - bluish skin
• Hemorrhage int thyroid cyst
• Heroin overdose - bluish skin
• Herring poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• HMG-CoA lyase deficiency - cyanosis
• Hydrocodone overdose - bluish skin
• Hydrogen sulfide
• Hyperekplexia and epilepsy - cyanosis
• Iatrogenic pneumothorax - Cyanosis
• Idiopathic diffuse interstitial fibrosis - cyanosis
• Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension - cyanosis
• Idiopathic subglottic tracheal stenosis - cyanosis
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura - purplish skin areas
• Infantile apnea - cyanosis
• Inhaled foreign body
• Insect sting allergies - Cyanosis
• Iron poisoning - Cyanosis
• Isaacs syndrome - cyanotic episodes
• Ischemic heart disease
• Ivemark Syndrome - cyanosis
• Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome - cyanosis
• Kaposi's Sarcoma - reddish-purple spots
• Kersting-Hellwig syndrome - blue skin over nodule
• Kugel-Stoloff syndrome - cyanosis
• Lantana poisoning - cyanosis
• Laryngeal cleft - cyanosis
• Laryngeal oedema
• Larynx obstruction
• Left heart failure
• Left ventricular failure
• Legionella adelaidensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella anisa infection - cyanosis
• Legionella beliardensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella birminghamensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella bozemanii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella bruneiensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella brunensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella busanensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella cherrii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella cincinnatiensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella donaldsonii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella donaldsonil infection - cyanosis
• Legionella drancourtii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella drozanskii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella dumofii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella erythra infection - cyanosis
• Legionella fairfieldensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella fallonii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella feelei infection - cyanosis
• Legionella feeleii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella gesstiana infection - cyanosis
• Legionella gormanii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella gratiana infection - cyanosis
• Legionella gresilensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella hackeliae infection - cyanosis
• Legionella impletisoli infection - cyanosis
• Legionella isrealensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella jamestowniensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella jordanis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella lansingensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella londinensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella longbeachae infection - cyanosis
• Legionella lytica infection - cyanosis
• Legionella maceachemii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella maceachernii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella micdadei infection - cyanosis
• Legionella monrovica infection - cyanosis
• Legionella moravica infection - cyanosis
• Legionella nautarum infection - cyanosis
• Legionella oakridgensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella parisiensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella quateirensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella quinlivanii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella rowbothamii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella rubrilucens infection - cyanosis
• Legionella sainthelensi infection - cyanosis
• Legionella santicrucis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella shakespearei infection - cyanosis
• Legionella spiritensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella steigerwaltii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella tauriensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella tusconensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella wadsorthii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella wadsworthii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella waltersii infection - cyanosis
• Legionella worsliensis infection - cyanosis
• Legionella yabuuchiae infection - cyanosis
• Lethal chondrodysplasia, Moerman type - cyanotic heart disease
• Levotransposition of the great arteries - cyanosis
• Lichen planus - blue areas inside cheeks
• Limb transversal defect - cardiac anomaly - cyanotic heart disease
• Lissencephaly - cyanotic infant
• Livido reticularis
• Local vasoconstriction
• Long-standing hypopnoea
• Long-standing sleep apnoea
• Lortab overdose - bluish skin
• Los cardiac output
• Lung cancer
• Lung diseases - causing cyanosis include:
• Lung disorders
• Lung trauma
• Lupus - cyanosis
• Lymphangiomatosis, pulmonary - cyanosis
• Malignant lymph nodes
• Marie-Bamberg syndrome - cyanotic nails
• Meadows syndrome - cyanosis
• Meconium aspiration syndrome - cyanosis
• Melioidosis - cyanosis
• Mendelson syndrome - cyanosis
• Methadone overdose - bluish skin
• Methaemoglobinaemia
• Methahemoglobinemia - blue cheeks
• Methemoglobinemia
• Methemoglobinemia, beta-globin type - bluish area under fingernails
• Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism, type 1 - cyanotic attacks
• Microphthalmia syndromic, type 9 - cyanotic heart disease
• Mitral atresia - blue skin
• Mole
• Mongolian blue spot - a blue/black spot on the buttocks or lower back region.
• Morphine overdose - bluish skin
• Mountain sickness - cyanosis
• Mycosis fungoides - bluish-red elevated skin plaques
• Mycosis fungoides, familial - bluish-red elevated skin plaques
• Necrotizing fasciitis - violet skin
• Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome - cyanosis
• Neonatal sepsis - cyanosis
• Ochronosis
• Organophosphate insecticide poisoning - cyanosis
• Osler-Vaquez disease - cyanosis
• Osteogenesis imperfecta - eye blueness
• Partial atrioventricular canal - bluish skin
• Patent foramen ovale
• Peach seed poisoning - cyanosis
• Peripheral arterial occlusion
• Perniosis - bluish-red skin discoloration
• Phlegmasia alba dolens
• Pickwickian syndrome
• Pierre Robin's sequence - cyanosis
• Plant poisoning - Amygdalin - bluish skin
• Plant poisoning - Cyanogenic glycoside - bluish skin
• Plant poisoning - Hydroquinone - bluish skin
• Plant poisoning - Lantadene - bluish skin
• Pneumoconiosis - cyanosis
• Pneumonia - cyanosis
• Pneumonia caused by serotype O11 Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - bluish skin
• Pneumonia, Aspiration - bluish skin
• Pneumonia, Bacterial - bluish skin
• Pneumonia, Staphylococcal - bluish skin
• Pneumothorax
• Polycythaemia rubra vera
• Polycythemia rubra - cyanosis
• Primary pulmonary hypertension - cyanosis
• Primary tracheal tumor
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 - cyanotic attacks upon exposure to increased temperature
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal dominant - cyanotic attacks upon exposure to increased temperature
• Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1, autosomal recessive - cyanotic attacks upon exposure to increased temperature
• Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis - cyanosis
• Pulmonary arterio-veinous aneurysm - cyanosis
• Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula - cyanosis
• Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation - blue skin
• Pulmonary artery coming from the aorta - cyanosis
• Pulmonary atresia
• Pulmonary atresia - intact ventricular septum - blue skin
• Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect - cyanosis
• Pulmonary cystic lymphangiectasis - cyanosis
• Pulmonary edema - cyanosis
• Pulmonary edema of mountaineers - cyanosis
• Pulmonary embolism - cyanosis
• Pulmonary lymphangiectasia, congenital - cyanosis
• Pulmonary valve stenosis
• Pulmonary venous return anomaly - cyanosis
• Raynaud's disease
• Raynaud's phenomenon - skin whiteness then blueness then redness
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome - cyanotic skin
• Respiratory acidosis - cyanosis
• Respiratory arrest - cyanosis
• Respiratory disease
• Respiratory distress syndrome, infant - cyanosis
• Respiratory muscle paralysis - blue fingers
• Respiratory paralysis - blue fingers
• Right ventricle hypoplasia - cyanosis
• Sakati syndrome - cyanosis
• Sarcoidosis - purple skin patches
• Sardine poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• Sea snake poisoning - cyanosis
• See also causes of cyanosis, blue skin, dark skin, purple skin, or skin color changes
• Sepsis - Cyanosis
• Severe shock
• Shaken Baby Syndrome - bluish skin
• Shaver's disease - cyanosis
• Shock - cyanosis
• Short stature webbed neck heart disease - cyanotic heart disease
• Shprintzen syndorme - cyanosis
• Silicosiderosis - bluish skin
• Silicosis - bluish skin
• Slickhead poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• Sneddon Syndrome - cyanosis
• Spontaneous pneumothorax, familial type - bluish skin
• Streptococcal Group B invasive disease - blue skin
• Stridor - Cyanosis
• Subpulmonary stenosis - bluish skin
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Cyanosis
• Suffocation - Cyanosis
• Sulfhemoglobinemia
• Sulphaemoglobinaemia
• Superior vena cava syndrome - cyanosis of shoulder
• Superior vena caval obstruction
• Tarpon poisoning (clupeotoxin) - cyanosis
• Taussig Bing syndrome - cyanosis
• Thyroid carcinoma
• Tonic seizure - cyanosis
• Tonic-Clonic seizure - cyanosis
• Tracheal agenesis without tracheoesophageal fistula - cyanosis
• Tracheal stenosis syndrome - cyanotic episodes
• Tracheoesophageal fistula without esophageal atresia - cyanosis with feeding
• Transposition of great arteries
• Tricuspid atresia
• Tricuspid valve stenosis
• Truncus Arteriosus - cyanosis
• Twisted atrioventricular connections - cyanosis
• Type 1 Tracheal agenesis without tracheoesophageal fistula - cyanosis
• Type 2 Tracheal agenesis without tracheoesophageal fistula - cyanosis
• Type 3 Tracheal agenesis without tracheoesophageal fistula - cyanosis
• Unilateral pulmonary agenesis - cyanosis
• Vaquez disease - cyanosis
• Vascular malposition - Cyanosis
• Vein of Galen aneurysm - Cyanosis
• Velocardiofacial syndrome - Cyanosis
• Ventricular septal defect - Cyanosis
• Ventriculo-arterial discordance, isolated - Cyanosis
• Vicodin overdose - bluish skin
• Visible veins
• VLCAD deficiency - Cyanosis
• Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome - Cyanosis
• Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome - cyanosis
• Weinstein Kliman Scully syndrome - Cyanosis
• Western equine encephalitis - Cyanosis
• Wheezing - Cyanosis
• Whooping Cough - Blue or purple (cyanosis)
• Wild cherry seed poisoning - cyanosis

Drug side effect causes of Cyanosis

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Cyanosis as a side effect.

• Certain medications
• Amiodarone
• Dapsone
• Potassium chlorate poisoning
• High nitrite ingestion

Medical Textbooks about Cyanosis

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