A woman may stop getting her period for a variety of reasons: 1  She's having a health problem. 2  She's pregnant. 3  She's reached menopause â a time in life when older women (45 to 55 years old) stop getting periods and can no longer have babies.
Pancreatitis does not cause pleural effusion. It can cause certain chemical changes in the blood that results in shallow breathing and resulting anoxia. Perhaps it is this that led you to think that this was effusion. Views.
The following are some of the more common causes of a pleural effusion (but there are other rarer causes too): 1  Lung infection (pneumonia), tuberculosis, and cancers may cause inflammation of the lung and pleura. 2  Some arthritic conditions may cause inflammation of the pleura in addition to joint inflammation.