Common causes of Pericardial effusion

Causes of Pericardial effusion that are uncommon

The following causes of Pericardial effusion are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

• Scleroderma - pericardial effusion

Causes of Pericardial effusion that are very rare

The following causes of Pericardial effusion appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Amyloidosis
• Kawasaki disease - pericardial effusions
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Causes of Pericardial effusion without any prevalence information

The following causes of Pericardial effusion are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Aortic dissection
• Bacterial pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Bronchogenic cyst
• Cantu Sanchez-Corona Garcia-cruz syndrome - pericardial effusion
• CDG syndrome type 1A - pericardial effusions
• Collagen vascular disease
• Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1A - pericardial effusions
• Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1L - pericardial effusion
• Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation Type Ia - pericardial effusions
• Constrictive pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Constrictive tuberculous pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• Dissecting aortic aneurysm
• Dressler's syndrome
• Hypertrichotic osteochondrodysplasia - pericardial effusion
• Hypothyroidism
• Iatrogenic
• Idiopathic
• Infection
• Kawasaki disease - pericardial effusions
• Malignancy
• Myocardial rupture
• Myxoedema
• Pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Pneumonia, eosinophilic - pericardial effusion
• Pyogenic pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Radiation induced
• Rheumatic pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Scrub typhus
• Tuberculous pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Uremia
• Uremic pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Ventricular aneurysm
• Viral pericarditis - pericardial effusion

All Causes of Pericardial effusion

The full list of all possible causes for Pericardial effusion described in various sources is as follows:

• Amyloidosis
• Aortic dissection
• Bacterial pericarditis - pericardial effusion
• Bronchogenic cyst
• Cantu Sanchez-Corona Garcia-cruz syndrome - pericardial effusion

See full list of possible disease causes of Pericardial effusion
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