What's the difference between carditis and inflammation?
Carditis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(2) Polyarthritis alone was present in 51 cases, carditis alone in 31, and combined carditis and polyarthritis in 28; chorea was diagnosed in 5.
(3) Carditis appeared to be rather benign: at the acute stage no patient developed congestive heart failure or any other serious complication.
(4) Of the total 47 episodes, carditis was manifested by a significant murmur without previous RF or any known rheumatic heart disease in 40%; change in the character of a murmur under observation or the appearance of a new murmur in 15%; and acute pericarditis in 19%.
(5) Persistent or reactivated rheumatic carditis may be a significant factor of valve failure, and penicillin prophylaxis is mandatory after operation.
(6) The rate of carditis (3 of 10 patients) was similar to that in older studies of adults with ARF.
(7) There was no evidence of carditis during these recurrences and all patients remained free of rheumatic heart disease 10 years after the initial attack.
(8) Cardiac failure was due to exacerbation of the carditis process on the one hand, and to disorders of the rhythm induced by dystrophy, sclerosis, fibroelastosis, and calcinosis in the cardiac septum on the other.
(9) Carditis, present in only eight (15%) of the adults, was mild and transient.
(10) Because of various manifestations (rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis, arthralgie, "red eye", neuritis, carditis) and different symptomatics the disease is misjudged over month and years.
(11) Fulminating active rheumatic carditis has been observed for over three decades in this environment with no recent alteration in either the incidence or the pattern of presentation.
(12) In the acute phase of carditis, circulating immune complexes were also measured, thus monitoring immunoreactivity.
(13) Additional features may include carditis, pericarditis, aneurysmal dilation and thrombosis of coronary arteries, and sudden death.
(14) This mouse is proposed as a model for Lyme borreliosis carditis, synovitis, and myositis.
(15) The data emphasize the suitability of the scid mouse as a model in which to study the role of the immune system in the pathogenesis of Lyme carditis.
(16) Eighteen patients with Kawasaki disease and suspected carditis (11 boys, 7 girls, mean age 18 months) in acute stages underwent Tc-99m HMPAO WBC imaging of the heart.
(17) Carditis resolved without antibiotic treatment and has not recurred.
(18) Carditis was the commonest manifestation and was seen in 28 (66.6%) children, followed by arthritis in 24 (57.1%), and chorea in 3 (7.1%).
(19) The incidence of acute carditis was 23% among the former, 46% among the latter (P less than or equal to 0.01), and 34% among the whole group.
(20) Some of the effector cells may be specific for cultured myocardial cells, but their role in the pathogenesis of rheumatic carditis will require further studies of lymphocytes from patients with acute rheumatic fever and carditis.
Inflammation
Definition:
(n.) The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
(n.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
(n.) Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as, an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(2) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(3) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
(4) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(5) The authors describe the role played by these substances in the pathogenesis of inflammations, their importance in the regulation of intraocular pressure and in the development of cystoid macular oedema.
(6) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(7) A patient with abdominal discomfort and hematemesis was found to have lower esophageal inflammation on endoscopy.
(8) Hence, presence of IgG rheumatoid factor correlated positively with the presence of rheumatoid disease, and evidence was established that certain features of rheumatoid inflammation occur in dental periapical lesions of many patients with rheumatoid disease.
(9) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(10) Vulvovaginal inflammations and infections in the premenarchal child are caused by a large number of etiologic agents.
(11) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(12) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(13) On the other hand, the compound was more potent on secondary or late stage than on primary stage of inflammation, and to some extent showed the mode of action seen with steroid antiinflammatory drugs.
(14) Although the mechanism(s) by which melanin augments inflammation has not been defined, these data suggest that the binding of serum components (such as antibodies) to melanin may contribute to its proinflammatory effect.
(15) Morphologic and microbiologic study of the operation and biopsy specimens, obtained from 73 patients with odontogenic inflammatory processes has shown that in 38% of cases the inflammation was induced by mixed fungal and bacterial flora.
(16) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(17) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
(18) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
(19) The mice that remained asymptomatic at this time showed few signs of inflammation and none developed clinical disease over the following 9 months.
(20) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.