What causes pleural effusion?

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In medicine, pleural effusion is a very common disease, once patients with this disease, often appear dyspnea and chest pain phenomenon, to the patient's life and work bring great trouble. So what causes pleural effusion? Let's talk about it

What causes pleural effusion?

The increase of hydrostatic pressure in pleural capillaries leads to pleural effusion, such as congestive heart failure, constrictive pericarditis, increased blood volume, obstruction of superior vena cava or azygos vein, resulting in pleural effusion.

Pleural capillary permeability increases, which is the second cause of pleural effusion, such as pleural inflammation (tuberculosis pneumonia), connective tissue disease (systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis), pleural tumor (malignant tumor metastasis mesothelioma), lung infarction, subphrenic inflammation (subphrenic abscess, liver abscess, acute pancreatitis), etc.

Injury, thoracic hemorrhage, rupture of aortic aneurysm, rupture of esophagus, rupture of thoracic duct, etc., resulting in hemothorax, empyema and chylothorax. In terms of treatment, the best TCM conditioning is xiaojihuayin.

matters needing attention

For patients with pleural effusion, different diseases have different treatment methods, patients must actively go to the hospital for examination before treatment, to understand what type of pleural effusion they are suffering from, so as to achieve a good treatment method.