What about pulmonary effusion in the elderly?

The elderly pulmonary effusion normal refers to pleural effusion, treatment methods are divided into the following two aspects: 1, active treatment of primary disease. Common tuberculosis, tuberculous pleurisy, mainly anti-tuberculosis treatment. Heart failure patients, the application of cardiac, diuretic, vasodilator drugs to correct heart failure. Patients with advanced cirrhosis, the use of liver protection treatment. Malignant tumor patients, surgery or radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment, these diseases can cause the elderly pulmonary effusion. 2, for the treatment of effusion. Can take the means of pleural puncture, keep the effusion, measurement inspection, if the simple cause of infection, can be directly injected into the pleural anti-infection drugs, direct action on the site of the problem, the effect will be faster. If the effusion quickly rises after extraction, and the test results are possible for tumor causes, treatment of tumor or primary, at the same time can be injected in the pleural site of anti-tumor drugs, targeted treatment.