Best Doctors for Pericardial Effusion Treatment in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad

Pericardial effusion is the condition in which the double layered sac around the heart is filled with excess fluid. In cases like injury or diseases to pericardium like pericarditis, the fluid is filled from inflammatory response. This condition places extra pressure on heart, causing decreased filling of heart chambers with blood and low efficiency in its functions. If pericardial effusion is not timely treated or left untreated, it can turn fatal. It is evidently characterized by shortness of breath, chest discomfort, tightness and fullness, lower extremity edema, and chest pain. Some of the systemic diseases that are responsible for causing pericardial effusion are autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, cardiac tissue cancers, metastasis of the lung or breast cancer, uremia, hypothyroidism, and other infectious diseases.