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 most common causes of exudative pleural effusions are bacterial pneumonia, cancer (with lung cancer, breast cancer, and lymphoma causing approximately 75% of all malignant pleural effusions), viral infection, and pulmonary embolism. Another common cause is after heart surgery.he most common causes of transudative pleural effusions in the United States are biventricular failure, and cirrhosis (causing hepatic hydrothorax). Nephrotic syndrome leading to increased loss of albumin and resultant hypoalbuminemia and reduced colloid osmotic pressure is another, less common, cause.