Clinical and Etiological Profile of the Patients Presenting With Pleural Effusion in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine RMCH, Bareilly

Dr.Sanjay Bansal; Dr.Mohd. Javed Khan; Dr.Vijayesh Kumar Tiwari; Dr. Abhishek Kumar

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Clinical and Etiological Profile of the Patients Presenting With Pleural Effusion in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine RMCH, Bareilly

Dr. Sanjay Bansal, Dr. Mohd. Javed Khan, Dr. Vijayesh Kumar Tiwari, Dr. Abhishek Kumar

Abstract :

 Pleural effusion can occur primarily or secondarily as complications of various diseases and classified into exudative or transudative. It becomes essential to differentiate between the types of pleural effusion due to its extensive differential diagnosis. Hence we decided to conduct a study which provides a ief overview of clinical and etiological profile of the patients with pleural effusion. Pleural fluid cytological and biochemical analysis is the most important and commonly used diagnostic method to distinguish exudative from transudative pleural effusion. 350 patients were enrolled in study, out of which 94.9% patients were having exudative and 5.1% patients were with transudative cause. Tuberculosis was the most common exudative cause while CHF was most common cause for transudative pleural effusion.