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Well I had a chest X-Ray And the results was Enlarge Cardiac Silhouette and Pleurl Effusion. I got the call from the doc and he wanted a CT Scan done of the chest and it said the same thing. Can anyone Tell me what going on I don't see the Cardilogists until the 7th of next month.  
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I'm not a doctor, but it sounds like they've been concerned because there is fluid accumulated in your pleural spaces and they wanted to figure out what's probably causing it. Pleural effusion can be caused by many things (like heart failure, tuberculosis, pneumonia, other infections, trauma, surgery complications, some kinds of cancer, emboli, liver problems, etc.) In most cases, it's due to heart failure.
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