What causes severe cardiac edema?

The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. The function of the heart is irreplaceable. It is the basis for promoting the normal development of various circulatory systems in the body. Therefore, the heart is one of the organs that cannot have disease problems. Once you suffer from heart disease, it will have a great impact on the body. For example, water accumulation in the heart is an extremely serious disease. Let’s take a look at what causes severe water accumulation in the heart?

Hydropericardium, also known as pericardial effusion. Pericardial effusion is a common clinical manifestation. Especially after echocardiography became a routine examination method for cardiovascular disease, the detection rate of pericardial effusion in patients has increased significantly, reaching as high as 8.4%.

Infectious:

1. Bacteria: tuberculosis, pneumococcus, streptococcus, meningococcus, gonococcus.

2. Viruses: ① Coxsackie B, A, Echo virus, influenza virus; ② Infectious mononucleosis.

3. Fungi: Histoplasma, Actinomycetes, Cocci, Aspergillus, and Capsulatum.

4. Parasites: amoeba, filarial worms, and hydatid worms.

5. Rickettsia.

Systemic diseases:

1. Connective tissue disease: systemic lupus erythematosus. Scleroderma, rheumatic fever, polyarteritis nodosa, rheumatoid arthritis, Takeyasu syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, dermatomyositis, Behcet's disease.

2. Allergic serum sickness, Dresler syndrome, post-pericardiotomy syndrome, post-cardiac injury syndrome, and radiation damage.

3. Erosive pericarditis in patients with metabolic diseases such as uremia, gout, Addison's disease crisis, new fluid edema, and cholesterol pericarditis.

4. Lesions in adjacent organs include acute myocardial infarction, pleurisy, intramural aneurysm, pulmonary embolism, and esophageal disease.

5. Other acute pancreatitis, thalassemia, Boan-Wight syndrome, Wipple syndrome, non-lymphatic arthritis, Relier syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, amyloidosis, familial pericarditis.

Tumors:

1. Primary mesothelioma and sarcoma.

2. Secondary lung cancer, bronchial cancer, prostate cancer, thymic cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, and leukemia.

Drug-induced:

Procainamide, pheniramine, penicillin, isoniazid, phenylbutazone, methylthiophene, cyclophosphamide, anticoagulants.