Clinical and Etiological Study of Pleural Effusion, one year Longtudinal Study

Abstract

Introduction: In the present study of 100 patients with Pleural Effusion admitted in Department of Medicine, KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre in the study period from January 2017 to December 2017 was undertaken to find the aetiology of Pleural Effusion. Materials and Methods: All Patients admitted to wards of Department of General Medicine, KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Belagavi with Pleural Effusion, were subjected for Pleural Fluid Analysis. Observations and Conclusion: The results observed on analysing the pleural fluid were majority of patients with exudative effusions in which most of the patients were tubercular followed by Parapneumonic effusions. In our study there was a male preponderance with a male to female ratio of 2.125 to 1 ( 68 males, 32 females) . We applied Light’s criteria to find out type of effusion. Maximum number of patients had exudative effusion of which commonest etiology was found to be Tuberculosis in 49 Patients ( 49% ) There was a positive correlation between Pleural LDH and Pleural ADA, and Pleural ADA with advancing age.