Pericardial effusion differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Differential Diagnosis
Serous
- Acute pancreatitis
- Chemotherapeutics
- Chronic disease
- Cirrhosis
- Congestive heart failure
- Dressler's syndrome
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Hypothyroidism
- Infection
- Irradiation
- Malnutrition
- Nephrotic Syndrome
Blood
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Anticoagulants
- Aortic rupture
- Cardiac catheterization
- Chemotherapeutics
- Coagulotherapy
- Heart surgery
- Neoplasm
- Perforation
- Trauma
- Uremia
Lymph or chylous
- Benign obstruction of thoracic duct
- Idiopathic
- Neoplasm
Metastatic tumor
Miscellaneous
Infectious
Noninfectious
- Idiopathic
- Uremia: Kidney failure with excessive blood levels of urea nitrogen
- Heart surgery[1]
- Neoplasia that has spread to the pericardium
- Acute myocardial infarction: Post myocardial infarction pericarditis (Dressler's syndrome)
- Postirradiation
- Aortic dissection (with leakage into pericardial sac)
- Trauma
- Sarcoidosis
- Pericarditis
References
- ↑ Pericardial effusion:What are the symptoms?, Dr. Martha Grogan M.D.