Symptoms and hazards of pleurisy

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Pleurisy is an inflammation of pleura caused by virus or bacteria stimulation. There will be fluid accumulation or no fluid accumulation in the body of patients. After the inflammation subsides, the pleura will return to normal state or two layers of pleura will stick to each other. Patients with pleurisy will suddenly appear chest pain, and in patients with deep breathing or coughing appear pain aggravating phenomenon, sometimes accompanied by chest tightness, cough, shortness of breath, dyspnea, hunger, cold, fever and other symptoms. Severe patients will lead to abdominal and shoulder pain. So what are the consequences of pleurisy?

Symptoms and hazards of pleurisy

If the patient's pleurisy is not treated properly, exudative pleurisy and exudative pleurisy will appear after the patient's condition is serious. If the treatment is not timely or appropriate, it will develop into Encapsulated Effusion, which will seriously endanger the patient's health, and the final treatment will be more difficult.

When people are suffering from simple tuberculous pleurisy, if the treatment is not appropriate or not according to the prescribed process, the patients will have other parts of tuberculosis or severe tuberculosis, sometimes there will be disseminated combination, pulmonary tuberculosis, chest wall tuberculosis and other symptoms.

Pleurisy patients with exudative pleurisy pleural effusion has not been treated, gradually with aging and even become purulent, become tuberculous empyema; If one side of the pleura is hypertrophic, the pulmonary function can be bound, and the contralateral emphysema, chronic pulmonary heart disease, even heart failure and other complications can occur.

matters needing attention

So when the patient check found the symptoms of pleurisy, should be treated in time, early treatment when there is no obvious pleural effusion phenomenon, can be effectively treated, if the treatment is not timely, serious will endanger life.