Key result
Minoxidil is linked to the development of high-protein pericardial and pleural effusions.
Why the study?
Effusions associated with minoxidil administration have been considered transudates, but this case challenges that view by showing high protein content effusions.
Minoxidil-associated pleuropericardial effusions can have a high protein content, challenging the view that they are strictly transudative.
Alerts clinicians to possible exudative effusions on minoxidil; single case leaves open causality and prevalence.
Summary A patient on minoxidil developed pericardial and pleural effusions with a high protein content. This finding is not compatible with the view that such effusions in patients taking minoxidil are transudates.
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Webb et al. (1982) studied this question. Minoxidil administration was associated with the development of high-protein pericardial and pleural effusions, indicating that such effusions are not simply transudates.
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