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.
1 In general, pleural effusions can be divided into transudates (caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels) and exudates (where fluid leaks from inflammation of the pleura and lung). 2  The most common causes of pleural effusion are congestive heart failure, pneumonia, malignancies and pulmonary embolism.