Saturday, December 19, 2009

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

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