What's the difference between pleuritic and pleuritis?
Pleuritic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pleuritical
Example Sentences:
(1) Persistent high fever and intense pleuritic pain following severe pharyngitis should suggest streptococcal pleural infection and prompt careful roentgenographic investigation.
(2) Four patients occupationally exposed to asbestos, each suffering at least eight years of disabling, persistent, and often bilateral pleuritic pain are described.
(3) A young woman presented with the acute onset of pleuritic chest pain ahd pleural effusion which eventually proved to be secondary to an infected disk space.
(4) Clinical suspicion of right-sided endocarditis is justified in any patient with prolonged fever, cough, pleuritic pain, tachycardia, and multiple pulmonary infiltrates.
(5) However, immunocytochemical distinction cannot be made as yet between mesothelioma cells and pleuritic cells.
(6) We report the case of an HIV-seropositive patient with a two-week history of fever, a productive cough, and pleuritic chest pain.
(7) The clinical manifestations include fever, chills, rigor, dyspnea, pleuritic pain, productive cough, and hemoptysis.
(8) All had left pleuritic pain, fever and pleural effusion.
(9) Symptoms and signs included rapid onset, fever, cough, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and headache.
(10) Non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory drugs may be adequate therapy for pleuritic pain.
(11) inhibited the accumulation of exudate and decreased the total counts of leukocytes and the amount of PGE2 in a dose-dependent manner in sodium urate crystal-induced pleuritic rats.
(12) A patient is reported with seropositive, erosive rheumatoid arthritis, who developed symptoms resembling pleuritic pain, arising from synovitis of the manubriosternal joint.
(13) Findings occurring significantly more often (P less than or equal to .001) among cases than controls included pleuritic chest pain; acute sinus tenderness, and nasal discharge, epistaxis and eschar; rales; development of multilobar infiltrates after the 14th hospital day; and presence of nodular or cavitary infiltrates.
(14) Pleuritic chest pain diminished by sitting up and relieved by antiinflammatory agents developed in 12 (28%), of whom only 5 had PE.
(15) We identified five independent predictors of mortality in the derivation cohort: pleuritic chest pain (risk ratio, 0.4; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.17 to 0.99), mental status changes (risk ratio, 2.6; 95% CI, 1.4 to 4.6), a severe vital sign abnormality (risk ratio, 2.1; 95% CI 1.2 to 3.6), neoplastic disease (risk ratio, 5.0; 95% CI, 2.7 to 9.1), and "high-risk" pneumonia etiology (risk ratio, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.6 to 5.0).
(16) At presentation pleuritic chest pain was a prominent symptom, and later he developed pulmonary abscesses and an empyema.
(17) The case of a 19-year-old white female who presented with marked respiratory distress and pleuritic chest pain following freebased cocaine smoking is presented.
(18) Three of these patients also had features compatible with the postpericardiotomy syndrome (fever, malaise, or pleuritic chest pain), and seven developed the syndrome without pain in the shoulder girdle.
(19) The mean proliferative responses to AP-Mt were higher in synovial-fluid than in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells in rheumatoid arthritis patients (mean [SEM] stimulation index 10.5 [3.1] vs 2.6 [0.9]) and in pleural-exudate than in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells in the pleuritic patients (7.5 [1.7] vs 3.5 [2.0]).
(20) A 41-year-old man was admitted for evaluation of hemoptysis, dysphagia, and pleuritic chest pain associated with a mediastinal mass.
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.