peritoneal effusion

Etiology

 infectious diseases

• viral diseases
• bacterial diseases and mycobacterial diseases (tuberculosis )

 iatrogeny

• Cardiac surgery
• Radiation therapy

 dysimmune diseases (immune-mediated)

• systemic lupus
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Scleroderma

 tumoral diseases (malignancy )

- endocrine diseases

• hypothyroidism

 metabolic diseases

• uremia

 drug-induced

• minoxidil, penicillins, methysergide

 heart failure , liver failure , renal failure

 coronary perforation
 Dressler syndrome
 hemorrhage (aortic dissection, trauma, free wall rupture)
 right ventricular perforation
 pericardial infarction
 chylopericardium

 idiopathic pericardial effusion

See also

 serous effusion

• pericardial effusion
• pleural effusion
• peritoneal effusion

 effusion
 edema