Category:Pleurisy

A lower respiratory infectious disease involving inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs. Major causes of pleurisy include cancer, drug reactions, infection with parasites such as amoeba or flukes, injury such as a rib fracture or bruise, irritants that reach the pleura from the airways such as asbestos, lung infarction caused by pulmonary embolism, pancreatitis, pneumonia, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, tuberculosis and viral pleuritis. The inflamed pleural layers rub against each other every time the lungs expand to breathe in air. This can cause sharp pain with breathing (also called pleuritic chest pain).

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