Pleuritic chest pain
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Differential Diagnosis
- Cardiac: Dressler syndrome, post-pericardiotomy, post-cardiac injury
- Toxins: asbestosis, medications
- Gastrointestinal: IBD, spontaneous bacterial pleuritis
- Genetic: Familial Mediterranean fever
- Hematologic: malignancy, sickle cell disease
- Infectious:
- Viral: adenovirus, coxsackievirus, CMV, EBV, influenza, mumps, parainfluenza, RSV
- Bacterial: Mediterranean spotted fever, parapneumonic effusion, tuberculous pleuritis
- Parasitic: amebiasis, paragonimiasis
- Inflammatory: reactive eosinophilic pleuritis
- Renal: CKD, renal capsular hematoma
- Rheumatologic: lupus pleuritis, rheumatoid pleuritis, Sjögren syndrome
