The incentive spirometer is also issued to patients recovering from rib damage to help minimize the chance of fluid build-up in the lungs.

Conductive hearing loss may also result from middle ear inflammation causing fluid build-up in the normally air-filled space.

On March 13, 2003, Oerter was briefly clinically dead; a change of blood pressure medications caused a fluid build-up around his heart.

It can make fluid build-up worse for people who have heart failure.

Thoracentesis (sampling of fluid build-up around the lung)

It is the result of a fluid build-up in or behind the eyeball and may affect one or both of the eyes.

This leads to pulmonary edema, or fluid build-up in the lungs.

This results in edema (fluid build-up) in the tissues.

It may also occur in the abdominal cavity, where the fluid build-up is called ascites.

Lymphedema is abnormal fluid build-up, usually in the arms or legs, and it needs prompt treatment.