Pleuritic pain and fever.

Fever, cough, pleuritic chest pain, and pleural fluid eosinophilia in a 30-year-old man.

A Very Rare Cause of Pleuritic Chest Pain: Bilateral Pleuritis as a First Sign of Familial Mediterranean Fever

The familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), also called recurrent polyserositis, is characterized by reccurrent episodes of serositis at pleura, peritoneum, and synovial membrane and fever. We present a patient with recurrent bilateral pleural effusion due to serositis attacks as a first sign of FMF. A 59-year-old Turkish man suffered from recurrent pleuritic chest pain due to pleural effusion and ...

Just a sore throat? Uncommon causes of significant respiratory disease.

We present two uncommon underlying causes of a sore throat which, if missed or delayed in diagnosis, can lead to disastrous consequences. Our first case is of Lemierre's syndrome diagnosed in a 21-year-old man presenting with a 5-day history of sore throat, fever, right-sided pleuritic chest pain and bilateral pulmonary nodules on CT imaging. Fusobacterium necrophorum cultured from peripheral b...

Radiology Case of the Month: TB or Not TB… That is the Question.

45-year-old female presenting initially with fever, nonproductive cough, night sweats, pleuritic chest pain, fatigue and weight loss over the past month.

A 13-year-old female with shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain.

CASE HISTORY A 13-yr-old Caucasian female was referred to the Dept of Paediatric Diseases (Havana, Cuba) with shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain located in her right hemithorax. The pain had occurred the day before while doing physical activity and lasted ,1 h. The patient reported a 2-month history of recurrent episodes of pleuritic chest pain, which were either self-limited or relie...

A Young Man Presenting with Pleuritic Chest Pain and Fever after Electrophysiological Study and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement: Diagnostic Difficulties and Value of Bedside Thoracic Sonography

We describe the case of a 23-year-old man presenting with recurrent pleuritic chest pain and prolonged fever after electrophysiology testing and placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator because of a suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. The clinical suspicion was initially directed toward pneumonia with pleural effusion and later toward an infection of the cardiac ...