What's the difference between pleurisy and pleuritis?
Pleurisy
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic examination of the patients with pleurisy of the above etiology promoted elucidation of the exudate nature in 86.7 and 10.4 per cent of the cases, respectively.
(2) For example, in the rat it produces a reduction of the secondary arthritis of Freund's adjuvant polyarthritis and also of the pleurisy due to Bordetella pertussis hypersensitivity.
(3) Forty-eight cases of tuberculous pleurisy were examined and the following results were obtained.
(4) The lesion was secondary to a benign asbestos pleurisy in nine patients and resulted from a slowly increasing pleural fibrosis in 13 patients; in the remaining 39 patients with exposure to asbestos, rounded atelectasis was a sudden finding, with earlier roentgenograms showing only plaques or being normal.
(5) The models used were (1) carrageenin-induced paw oedema in rats previously depleted of polymorphonuclear cells, (2) carrageenin-induced rat pleurisy and (3) migration of rat peritoneal leucocytes from glass capillary tubes in vitro.
(6) From May 1983 to June 1985 the authors performed a thoracoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic objective in 83 patients with chronic recurrent pleurisy; amongst these patients, 69 had know intra or extra thoracic cancer and the other 14 presented with an isolated pleurisy.
(7) In reverse passive Arthus reaction and carrageenan pleurisy models, Sch 40120 was found to suppress both the cellular and fluid components of the acute inflammation.
(8) Drug effects on pleurisy development, as measured by the pleural fluid volume, the number of emigrating leukocytes, and the in vitro oxygen uptake and hydrogen peroxide production of elicited polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) were investigated.
(9) Antiinflammatory activity was studied by means of the carrageenin-induced paw edema and pleurisy in rats.
(10) The infiltration of inflammatory cells, mainly polymorphonuclear leukocytes, into the cavity increased and reached a maximum 6 h after the pleurisy was induced.
(11) Three female members of a family presented with tuberculous pleurisy over a 4-month period.
(12) Among 627 thoracoscopies, lesions induced by exposure to asbestos were found in 9.9% (50 malignant mesotheliomas of the pleura, 10 pleural hyalinoses, 2 asbestos pleurisies).
(13) In the 23 patients, biopsy results were true positive in ten (nine with malignancy, one with tuberculous pleurisy), true negative in ten (confirmed either at subsequent thoracotomy or clinical follow-up), and false negative in three.
(14) In rat carrageenin-induced pleurisy, bradykinin (BK) was hardly able to be detected (< 160 pg per rat) in the exudates.
(15) Rarely BCG-vaccinated children suffered from miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pleurisy.
(16) The expression of ras oncogene product p21 in human malignant pleurisy and primary lung cancer was studied immunocyto-histochemically with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) rp-28 and rp-35 against ras p21.
(17) The effect of in vivo treatment with dexamethasone in rat pleurisy and with polyclonal anti-murine IL-1 beta antibody in mouse peritonitis was also assessed.
(18) However, this pleurisy would have been developed in case it was caused by the past tuberculosis after 43 years.
(19) In one of the observed centers of chicken septicemia infection no pathologic anatomical changes were evident while in the other two centers of infection serofibrinose and serofibrinose vitelline peritonitis, as well as pleurisy were present.
(20) Considered together with other clinical and laboratory indices, these determinations may aid in the differential diagnosis of pleurisy of various etiology.
Pleuritis
Definition:
(n.) Pleurisy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antiguanosine antibodies binding to single-stranded DNA were found primarily in patients with arthritis, pleuritis, and pericarditis.
(2) Nearly half of the patients with lymphoma had lymphocytosis of the pleural fluid, but neither this finding nor the lymphocytic pleuritis noted on biopsy was diagnostic of lymphomatous involvement of the pleura.
(3) In rabbits with adjuvant induced pleuritis, the visceral pleura, but not the costal pleura, showed mushroom-like projections on the pleural surface which were composed of a fibrin mass mixed with phagocytotic macrophages and covered by proliferative mesothelial cells.
(4) For separation of mesothelioma from pleuritis carcinomatosa a carrier, modified by attachment of N-acetylglucosamine moieties is the most useful marker being negative in all cases of the analyzed mesothelioma cases and being positive in 62-80% of the adenocarcinoma cases.
(5) For one year he was known to have left-sided fibrinous pleuritis.
(6) The sum of these data indicate that, in tuberculous pleuritis, CD4+CDw29+ cells are concentrated at the site of disease activity, produce IFN-gamma and are likely to play an important role in the local human cell-mediated immune response to M. tuberculosis.
(7) Analysis of these cases in terms of clinical type revealed meningitis in four, and pneumonia, sepsis, or pleuritis complicated with sepsis in the remaining three patients.
(8) Physical and complementary examinations were consistent with pericarditis, mediastinitis, pneumonia and pleuritis.
(9) One of them had had pleuritis when he was 6 years old.
(10) on inflammatory response such as ultraviolet erythema in guinea pigs, carrageenin edema, evans blue and carrageenin-induced pleuritis and acetic acid-induced peritonitis in rats.
(11) Four patients had restrictive pleuritis and one patient was operated due to insufficient expansion of the lung after operation for emphysematous bullae.
(12) Other pulmonary manifestations included pulmonary oedema, primary pulmonary malignancy, diffuse alveolar damage, fibrinous pleuritis, pulmonary emboli, and diaphragmatic atrophy.
(13) A 67-year-old male diagnosed clinically as having rheumatoid pleuritis and bronchiolitis was treated with adrenocorticosteroid.
(14) In contrast, nonvaccinated, challenged rabbits became febrile, dyspnic, depressed, and anorectic, and five of six died within 4 days of challenge with severe lesions including pneumonia, pleuritis, otitis media, and bacteremia.
(15) According to the criteria of the American Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Association the patients were suffering from 182 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis of only slight extension, 490 of moderate extension and 130 of large extension, as well as 55 cases of pleuritis, 67 extrapulmonary organ tuberculoses and 1 tuberculosis of the bronchial mucosa.
(16) Mycoplasma felis was identified as the cause of acute pleuritis in 2 show-jumping horses.
(17) Earlier reports have described pneumonitis and pleuritis as manifestations of this disease.
(18) H influenzae f has previously been rarely found to cause pleuritis and bacteremia, but has not been reported as a cause of cellulitis or primary peritonitis.
(19) The following illustrates a case study of a 9 years-old girl with combined pericarditis and pleuritis caused by solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma.
(20) Factors which appeared to predispose to pulmonary aspergillosis included corticosteroid therapy, disseminated neoplasms, hepatitis, pleuritis, and peritonitis.