The causes of pleural effusion

Depending on age, habits of life, the cause of pleural effusion can often vary slightly from region elsewhere in the world. In Vietnam, the common disease causing pleural effusion is tuberculosis, cancer, pneumonia, heart failure

Pleural tuberculosis: very common, especially in young people.  

 

Typically, a person is healthy, tired after a few days, feeling chest pain Scans one side, may find it difficult to breathe, mild fever, dry cough. Examination shooting film shows a white fluid in the lung cavity phoi.Co membrane may be attached to both tuberculosis. Patients respond well to treatment with anti-TB drugs.   

-Application Letter: cancer of bronchopulmonary can cause pleural effusion due to invasive cancer cells in pleural or indirectly caused by obstruction of the path from the pleural fluid comes out. Patients are often elderly, smokers, persistent cough from earlier, more and more difficult to breathe. Sometimes the cancer from elsewhere ran into the pleura.

-Suy Heart: heart failure can not pump blood from the lungs poured out blood stasis in the lungs makes plasma escape from blood vessels into the pleural cavity. Patients with dyspnea due to heart failure, pleural now have added increased dyspnea, cough, leg cramps, ... Diagnosis is not difficult.

Pneumonia: lung infections and germs spread to the pleura or lung infection too close to the pleura pleural do stimulated secretion of service. This case is not treated properly will translate into empyema, treatment difficult.

Besides, there are many other causes that can cause pleural effusion, from rheumatism to cirrhosis or after heart surgery. Your doctor will check and do the necessary tests to find the cause, then the treatment and to get results.

Treatment causes of pleural effusion effective, self-service loss. Maybe then without any sequelae nothing like in the case of tuberculosis, pneumonia, ... The person may file additional physical therapy for the blood for normal respiration.

In short, common pleural effusion, both adults and children. Pleural effusion is only a manifestation of a certain disease of the lungs or other organs. The reason may be due to infections such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, or tumors, heart failure, systemic disease, ... lays the type found pleural chest pain, difficulty breathing, should seek medical doctor for early detection effusion, find reasons to treat the root.