Diagnostic finding
Pericardial effusion
An abnormal accumulation of serous, hemorrhagic, or exudative fluid within the pericardial space surrounding the heart, which can impair cardiac filling and hemodynamics when sufficiently large or rapidly developing. Possible causes are pericarditis, infections (HIV, coxsackievirus, tuberculosis, fungal, parasitic), autoimmune (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus), malignancy (lung/breast cancer), heart failure, myocardial infarction, kidney failure, trauma, medical procedure, and hypothyroidism.
Also known as: Pericardial fluid accumulation, Hydropericardium, Hemopericardium, Chylopericardium
Referencing diagnoses
- Aortic dissection
- Cardiac tamponade
- Familial mediterranean fever
- HIV
- Hypothyroidism
- Kawasaki disease
- Mitral regurgitation
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Renal failure
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Syphilis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Tuberculosis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
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