Pleural effusion

Pleural effusion's disease overview

Membrane spill i is a phenomenon that appears in the pleural cavity (the empty compartment between the chest and the lungs) is more than the normal physiological level that causes changes on the human body. disease.

Pleural effusion is a common disease. In the year, there are about 1,000 new cases that are diagnosed with pleural effusion.  Depending on the level and cause of benign or malignant that can cause many complications even death.

pleural effusion is not a disease that a syndrome caused by various diseases. Pleural effusion found the cause of 80-90%, pleural effusion of unknown causes accounted for 10-20%.

Causes of Pleural effusion's disease

Can be divided into causes of pleural effusion as follows:

  • Absorbing fluid: ascites cirrhosis, heart failure, hypothyroidism, malnutrition, ovarian cysts, ...
  • secretion: Inflammation in the lungs (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, amoeba, lung fluke, liver fluke, etc.), tuberculosis, cancer, due to Systematic diseases (systemic lupus system), pulmonary artery obstruction, ...

    • Pleural fluid has blood color: pleural cancer, metastatic cancer to the lungs, chest injury, complications of pleural probes, ...

  • Milk pleural fluid: pinched or damage to the chest, lymphatic lymphatic inflammation, ...

    • Some common reasons:

  • pleural tuberculosis (accounting for 40% of the causes of pleural effusion) mild fever in the afternoon, coughing up blood, leaning weight, pleural fluid is often lemon yellow, fluid testing Pleural can be found with tuberculosis bacteria

    • Pleural pneumonia: High fever, chest pain, cough with phlegm, lung x -ray can see pneumonia images, pus can be found, pleural transplant can be found micro pathogenic bacteria.

    Cancer: Common in the elderly, with a history of smoking, pipe tobacco, often exposed to dust for many years. The fluid may be red, lemon yellow, relapse quickly after sucking, leaning weight, the whole body collapsed quickly. Cancer cells can be found in pleural fluid Heart failure: Patients with a history of cardiovascular disease, edema, small urination, often spill on both sides, color fluids in small quantities.

    Cirrhosis, ascites: History of cirrhosis, alcoholism, clear or lemon fluid, may have a large liver.

  • Nephrotic syndrome: Systemic edema, little urination, clear fluid.

    • Symptoms of Pleural effusion's disease

  • Chest pain: A symptom of early appearance, dull pain on the side of the effusion, increased pain when lying on the opposite side, increased pain when breathing deeply. : A typical symptom, shortness of breath depends on the level of effusion, shortness of breath increases as the level of overflow increases. When changing posture.

    People at risk for Pleural effusion's disease

    Those who suffer from the above diseases, if not detected and treated promptly, are at risk of pleural effusion.

    Prevention of Pleural effusion's disease

  • Improve the living environment, working environment
  • cooked, boiling, do not eat raw foods (fish salad, blood pudding, sour spring rolls, raw).
  • Isolate or use prophylaxis when interacting with people with tuberculosis.

    • Daily mouth hygiene, thorough treatment of respiratory infections in the prevention of inflammation in the lungs.

  • No smoking.

    • Diagnostic measures for Pleural effusion's disease

  • Pleural effusion can be detected through clinical examination manifested by a 3 decrease syndrome.
  • The chest X -ray shows that the image of the overflow is a horizontal corner in the case of little effusion, the average efficiency is the uniform image of the uniform in 1/3 under the waste , fuzzy 1/2 waste, push the heart to the opposite side if it is overflowing a lot.
  • pleural pleverization is a golden diagnosis. Colors of fluid, pleural testing to distinguish absorbent fluid and secretion help guide the cause and offer effective treatment solutions.

    • Pleural effusion's disease treatments

    pleural effusion needs to be detected early and treated promptly at medical facilities. In order to have a thorough treatment for pleural effusion to avoid complications and recurrence, it is necessary to find the cause of the overflow.

    Choosing suction fluid

    overflow due to any cause can be poked to do testing, biopsy, sucking epidemics for patients to breathe easily.

    Treatment of causes
  • tuberculosis: Using anti -tuberculosis drugs in combination with the right dose, enough time to follow the regimen
    • Inflammation: Use high-dose antibiotics, lasting from 4-6 weeks, choosing antibiotics in bacterial strains. Cancer: Surgical treatment, radiation therapy cirrhosis, heart failure, kidney failure, nephrotic syndrome treatment according to the regimen of each disease Other treatments

    Rehabilitate respiratory function with breathing, blowing balls, and episodes of chest expansion for a long time. Causing pleurisy with povidone in case of pleural effusion many recurrence quickly.

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