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What Causes Fluid In The Right Lung?
Question: There is a fluid in right lung, what does it means and how danger is it fir health?
Brief Answer:
There are many causes for fluid in lung.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic.
I can understand your concern.
You are talking about pleural effusion.
There are many causes for pleural effusion.
Common causes are
1. Tubercular infection
2. Bacterial pneumonia
3. Malignancy
4. Heart failure
5. Liver disease
6. Kidney diseases etc.
So please let me know
1. Age of patient.
2. What are the symptoms?
3. How much fluid is there?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
There are many causes for fluid in lung.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic.
I can understand your concern.
You are talking about pleural effusion.
There are many causes for pleural effusion.
Common causes are
1. Tubercular infection
2. Bacterial pneumonia
3. Malignancy
4. Heart failure
5. Liver disease
6. Kidney diseases etc.
So please let me know
1. Age of patient.
2. What are the symptoms?
3. How much fluid is there?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
age of patient is 33 years old.
Symptoms are coughing and up and down of fever.
For fluid quantity ,i have attached reports.
Symptoms are coughing and up and down of fever.
For fluid quantity ,i have attached reports.
Brief Answer:
Sorry to say but no attachment is seen.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on Healthcare Magic.
Sorry to say but, there is no attachment in your query.
You need to attach report in the attachment option.
So please attach the report and resend the query.
I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
Sorry to say but no attachment is seen.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on Healthcare Magic.
Sorry to say but, there is no attachment in your query.
You need to attach report in the attachment option.
So please attach the report and resend the query.
I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
I have again uploaded report, please check and let me know the furthet treatment ?
Brief Answer:
This does not indicate the amount of fluid present.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on Healthcare Magic.
I have gone through the report you have attached.
This is chest x ray report.
This can only identify the pleural effusion.
But it can not quantify the amount of fluid present.
For this, you need to get done ultrasound examination of chest.
This will tell exact amount of fluid present in the lungs and also tell about aspiration site.
So patient needs therapeutic pleural fluid aspiration and reports of fluid to identify the cause.
Possibility of tuberculosis is more.
Please let me know
1. Is patient having weight loss, decreased appetite?
2. Ultrasound examination done or not?
Please reply me answers of above asked 3. Does patient have tuberculosis in the past?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
This does not indicate the amount of fluid present.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your follow up question on Healthcare Magic.
I have gone through the report you have attached.
This is chest x ray report.
This can only identify the pleural effusion.
But it can not quantify the amount of fluid present.
For this, you need to get done ultrasound examination of chest.
This will tell exact amount of fluid present in the lungs and also tell about aspiration site.
So patient needs therapeutic pleural fluid aspiration and reports of fluid to identify the cause.
Possibility of tuberculosis is more.
Please let me know
1. Is patient having weight loss, decreased appetite?
2. Ultrasound examination done or not?
Please reply me answers of above asked 3. Does patient have tuberculosis in the past?
Please reply me answers of above asked questions, so that I can guide you better. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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