Clinical Etiological and Radiological Presentation of an Exudative Pleural Effusion in a Tertiary Care Center.

[摘要] Pleural effusion is common clinical entity in day-to-day clinical practice. Common causes of pleuraleffusion are congestive heart failure, tubercular pleural effusion, parapneumonic and malignant effusion. Thepurpose of this study was to evaluate clinical characteristics and etiology of exudative pleural effusion. The mainobjective of this study is to find out the various causes of exudative pleural effusion, and their clinical andradiological presentation. The retrospective study was done in the department of pulmonary medicine of atertiary care centre in Pune from june2019 to july2020.Total 100 cases diagnosed with exudative pleural effusionwere studied. All patients were subjected for routine blood investigations and pleural fluid analysis. In a total of100 patients, 68 were male and 32 were female patients. The most common presenting symptom was dyspnea(86%), cough (84%), fever (80%), chest pain (62%), loss of appetite (48%) and loss of weight (40%). The mostfrequent cause of exudative pleural effusion is tuberculosis(42%), malignancy(29%),para pneumonic effusion(23%) and diagnosis was unknown in 6 patients. Pleural fluid analysis is the diagnostic method to determineetiology of exudative pleural effusion. Our study concluded that the most common cause of exudative pleuraleffusion is tuberculosis followed by malignant and parapneumonic effusion.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Exudative Pleural Effusion;Tuberculosis;malignancy.