64 - Exudative Pleural Effusion causes

Exudative pleural effusions

A. Neoplastic diseases

1. Metastatic disease

2. Mesothelioma

3. Body cavity lymphoma

4. Pyothorax-associated lymphoma

B. Infectious diseases

1. Tuberculosis

2. Other bacterial infections

3. Fungal infections

4. Parasitic infections

5. Viral infections

C. Pulmonary embolization

D. Gastrointestinal disease

1. Pancreatic disease

2. Subphrenic abscess

3. Intrahepatic abscess

4. Intrasplenic abscess

5. Esophageal perforation

6. After abdominal surgery

7. Diaphragmatic hernia

8. Endoscopic variceal sclerosis

9. After liver transplantation

E. Heart diseases

1. After coronary artery bypass graft surgery

2. Post–cardiac injury (Dressler's) syndrome

3. Pericardial disease

F. Obstetric and gynecologic diseases

1. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

2. Fetal pleural effusion

3. Postpartum pleural effusion

4. Megis' syndrome

5. Endometriosis

G. Collagen vascular diseases

1. Rheumatoid pleuritis

2. Systemic lupus erythematosus

3. Drug-induced lupus

4. Immunoblastic lymphadenopathy

5. Sjögren's syndrome

6. Familial Mediterranean fever

7. Churg-Strauss syndrome

8. Wegeners granulomatosis

H. Drug-induced pleural disease

1. Nitrofurantoin

2. Dantrolene

3. Methysergide

4. Ergot alkaloids

5. Amiodarone

6. Interleukin-2

7. Procarbazine

8. Methotrexate

9. Clozapine

I. Miscellaneous diseases and conditions

1. Asbestos exposure

2. After lung transplantation

3. After bone marrow transplantation

4. Yellow nail syndrome

5. Sarcoidosis

6. Uremia

7. Trapped lung

8. Therapeutic radiation exposure

9. Drowning

10. Amyloidosis

11. Milk of calcium pleural effusion

12. Electrical burns

13. Extramedullary hematopoiesis

14. Rupture of mediastinal cyst

15. Acute respiratory distress syndrome

16. Whipple's disease

17. Iatrogenic pleural effusions

J. Hemothorax

K. Chylothorax