Causes of pericardial effusion can include: 1  Inflammation of the pericardium following heart surgery or a heart attack. 2  Autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. 3  Spread of cancer (metastasis), particularly lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or Hodgkin's disease.
Contact l Sitemap. Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying. On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road.
Measured by foreign assets, the distribution of the largest companies looks very much the same. Most of the top 100 companies with largest foreign assets are from the United States, Japan, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 1997, the list of the top 100 transnational corporations (TNCs), measured by foreign assets, included two companies from developing countries.