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Pain Whilst Breathing (Pleurisy)
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Pain Whilst Breathing (Pleurisy)
Inflammation of the pleura (the lining surrounding the lungs and chest wall) is called pleurisy. Pleurisy is also called pleuritis. This condition causes sharp chest pain that worsens when breathing.
Symptom classification
Body areaChest
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
31- Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia
- Asbestosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia
- Cnidaria
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Eosinophilic Granuloma
- Epidemic Pleurodynia
- Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
- Fungal Pneumonia
- Haemophilus Influenzae Pneumonia
- Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
- Legionella Infections
- Legionnaires Disease Pneumonia
- Lung Abscess
- Mediastinitis
- Melioidosis
- Paragonimiasis
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumococcal Pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia in The Immunocompromised Host
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Granulomatosis
- Renal Atheroembolism
- Staphylococcal Pneumonia
- Streptococcal Pneumonia
- Viral Pleuritis
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
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