What's the difference between costalgia and pleurodynia?
Costalgia
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Pleurodynia
Definition:
(n.) A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.
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(1) Of the patients with pericarditis, myocarditis, or pleurodynia, 27% (70) had IgM antibody to group B coxsackieviruses, as compared with 8% in the control group.
(2) Coxsackie B viruses are members of the family Picornaviridae which have been associated by retrospective serology with a range of muscle diseases, particularly myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy and epidemic pleurodynia (epidemic myalgia or Bornholm disease).
(3) The disease may be interpreted as infection with Coxsackie B virus associated with myocarditis and pleurodynia.
(4) However, some patients develop pleurodynia, carditis or aseptic meningitis.
(5) The clinical data provided on these 141 patients indicated that 33 (23 percent) had acute myocarditis, and 59 (42 percent) had acute pericarditis; 41 (29 percent) were recorded as having acute pleurodynia or Bronholm disease while eight (6 percent) had other indications of cardiac disease.
(6) Coxsackie A9 virus was the dominant agent in aseptic meningitis and Coxsackie B1 virus in pleurodynia and other syndromes.
(7) Pleurodynia and myocarditis were also observed, but only in 11 (7 percent) and 5 (3 percent) patients, respectively, all adults.
(8) Tests for immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody to group B coxsackieviruses were performed on sera from 259 patients with a clinical diagnosis of pericarditis, myocarditis, or pleurodynia on whom there were no definitive serological or virus isolation findings to establish a viral etiology, and on 259 "control" patients with clinical diagnoses of viral or mycoplasmal pneumonia or pneumonitis.
(9) The symptoms included pleurodynia, myocarditis and the acute gastritis.