Pleural effusion

Each lungs in the chest is surrounded by two very thin membrane called the pleura. Two membranes form a virtual compartment, normally only a few ml to make the pleural surface is smooth when rubbed together.


  When you have a medical condition that affects the pleura, the body's fluid can accumulate in the pleural cavity. When we say that there is pleural effusion. Pleural effusion is a common manifestation of many different diseases. In Vietnam, the common diseases that cause pleural effusion as tuberculosis, cancer, heart failure, liver, kidney, and lung inflammation.

1.Trieu evidence when pleural effusion:

Pleura has many blood vessels and nerves. When injured, the first symptom is pain. Pain of pleural disease very special type of chest pain called the pleura. Depending vulnerable position that the patient may feel pain in different positions. Between the pleural chest pain there. But due to common nerve distribution, pleural lesions outside the diaphragm can cause abdominal pain. Damage to the area between the diaphragm pleura or mediastinum back pain in the neck. But despite the pain where it hurts by pleura are also characterized by increased pain during deep breathing, coughing. It is caused by pleural stretched and rubbed each other more when patients perform that operation. As long effusion, pain fades away, then the patient can just feel the immediate severe chest disease only.

Many cases of pain due to pleural effusion was diagnosed with intercostal neuralgia.

When the fluid in the pleural cavity, the lungs are compressed. Therefore, the patient will feel breathlessness. Shortness of breath is more or less depending on how much care, depending on the patient with comorbid or not, depending on the previous state and the current lung.

Patients may have a cough. Often just a cough, but when there is disease in the lungs can cough up sputum. Ho do chest pain increased.

Systemic symptoms may include fever.

2. How to make sure there is pleural effusion:

To make sure there is fluid in the pleura are translated to withdraw from the pleural cavity. Doctor after doctor, x-rays and ultrasound if necessary to determine the most favorable location, will use a syringe to aspirate. This fluid is used to test for tracing the cause of hydrocephalus. Often people will measure the concentration of protein and several other unique characteristics, staining to observe the cells present in the fluid and can take care cultured bacteria. If the patient care so much trouble breathing, doctor cleared by drawing many services to help the lungs more easily expanded. Although pleural aspiration is a common procedure, but also cautious to avoid unfortunate accidents.