Nail Clubbing - Causes of Clubbing - Respiratory, GIT, CVS, Other Causes Of Clubbing

Clubbing Of Nails

In Clubbing there is loss of angle between nail and nail base.  Nails are felt swollen on palpation.

Causes Of Clubbing Of Nails

Diseases of different organ systems may cause clubbing

Clubbing Of Nails

Respiratory Causes Of Clubbing of Nails

1. Bronchiectasis

2. Lung abscess (lung abscess-treatment-causes-signs and symptoms)

3. Empyema

4. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD. Which include Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis.

5. Cystic Fibrosis

6. Fibrosing alveolitis

7. Carcinoma Of Lungs.

8. Mesothelioma

9. Tuberculosis (tuberculosis and types of tuberculosis)

Cardiovascular Causes Of Clubbing of Nails

1. Cyanotic Heart Disease

2. Tetralogy Of Fallot (Tetralogy Of Fallot Xray Diagnosis)

3. Transposition Of Great Vessels. 

4. Infective Endocarditis (clinical features of infective endocarditis)

5. Atrial Myxoma

6. Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR; a rare condition in which the pulmonary veins do not empty into the heart)

Gastrointestinal Causes Of Clubbing of Nails

1. Malabsorption syndrome

2. Celiac disease (celiac disease signs, symptoms, clinical presentation and treatment)

3. Crohn's disease 

4. Ulcerative Colitis (the difference between chron's disease and ulcerative colitis)

5. Primary biliary cirrhosis

6. Gastrointestinal lymphoma

7. Cirrhosis Of Liver

8. Liver Cancer

Other Miscellaneous Causes of Clubbing of Nails

1. Familial

2. Pseudo-clubbing in hyperthyroidism. ( there is resorption of the terminal phalanx in hyperthyroidism which gives an impression of clubbing. 

3. Dysentery (chronic infections and inflammation of GIT and diarrhoea) 

4. Hodgkin Lymphoma

5. Oesophagal Carcinoma.