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Disease Information for Pleural effusion
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Apical heart impulse/medial displacement
- Chest Pain
- Cyanosis
- Orthopnea in Elderly
- Asymmetrical breathing
- Breath Sounds Decreased
- Bronchial breath sounds
- Chest pain/non-cardiac
- Consolidation left base/signs
- Consolidation right base/on exam
- Cough
- Distant breath sounds
- Dullness to percussion lung base
- Dyspnea
- Dyspnea at rest
- Dyspnea on exertion
- Fremitus Localized Decrease
- Intercostal spaces filled out
- Localized decreased breath sounds
- Localized dullness to percussion
- Lung signs/abnormality
- Orthopnea
- Pleural Friction Rub.
- Rapid Breathing
- Shortness of breath/SOB
- Signs of consolidation/chest
- Signs of pleural effusion
- Splinting on breathing/sign
- Sudden onset dyspnea
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Unilateral Absent Breath Sounds
- Whispered pectroliloquy/egophony
- Tracheal deviation/shift
- Demographics & Risk Factors
- Recent Event
- Recent/Pneumonia
- Laboratory Tests
- Microbiology & Serology Findings
- Microlab/Pleural fluid culture/sterile
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- PLEURAL Transudate
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- SPAG/Serum Albumin-Pleural Gradient (Lab)
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- PFT/Vital capacity decreased
- Thoracentesis/Abnormality
- Thoracentesis/Pleural fluid present
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- Fluoroscopy/Cardiac/Chest abnormal
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- Associated Disease & Complications
- Acute respiratory failure/Respiratory arrest
- Atelectasis, pulmonary
- Pleural Effusion
- Atelectasis in Child
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
- Class
- CLASS/Pleural disorder (ex)
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- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Breathing Workload
- Pathophysiology/Lung Ventilation Mechanics
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- Definition
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An abnormal collection of fluid between the thin layers of tissue (pleura) lining the lung and the wall of the chest cavity.
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