Pericardial effusion causes


 * Associate Editor-In-Chief: ; Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S.

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

 * Breast cancer
 * Leukemia
 * Lung cancer
 * Lymphoma
 * Pericarditis

Miscellaneous

 * Cardiomyopathy
 * Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Infectious

 * Viral
 * Pyogenic
 * Tuberculous
 * Fungal
 * Other infections (syphilitic, protozoal, parasitic)
 * Pericarditis

Noninfectious

 * Idiopathic
 * Uremia: Kidney failure with excessive blood levels of urea nitrogen
 * Heart surgery
 * 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

Hypersensitivity or Autoimmunity Related

 * Amyloid
 * Collagen vascular disease
 * Drug-induced
 * Lupus
 * Pericarditis
 * Rheumatic fever