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Published in Sarah Bekaert, Women's Health, 2018
Bornholm disease – a viral infection that affects the intercostal muscles. The lining of the lungs, known as the pleura, may also be affected. This disease is also known as epidemic pleurodynia. Sudden onset of fever and pain occurs around 4 days after infection. During this incubation period, flu-like symptoms may occur. Pain is usually experienced in the chest or upper abdomen.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Pleurodynia [Greek: pleuros, side or a rib + odyne, pain] Old term for myalgia of the chest wall. Currently used as a synonym for Bornholm disease, an epidemic febrile infectious viral disease that occurred on the Danish island of Bornholm. It was described by Norwegian physician, Ejnar Oluf Sorenson Sylvest (1880–1931) in 1930.
Chest Pain in Pregnancy: Non-Cardiac Causes
Published in Tony Hollingworth, Differential Diagnosis in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: An A-Z, 2015
Viral pleuritis is a common disorder, but diagnosis is usually based on exclusion of other causes together with a history of coryza or influenza-like symptoms, such as fever, sore throat, generalised arthralgia/myalgia, malaise, and cough. Examination may reveal a high temperature and occasionally a pleural rub, usually best heard in the lower lateral zone of the thorax. ‘Bornholm disease’ refers to viral pleuritis with sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain and high temperature, caused usually by Coxsackie B virus. The pain is often severe with chest wall tenderness on palpation, and there may be associated pericarditis/myocarditis. Other causative organisms include Coxsackie A and echovirus. Virological diagnosis is based on throat swabs, faecal tests, and paired sera samples taken at least 10 days apart. In routine clinical practice it is hard to identify the causative virus and may take up to 2 weeks to obtain results. By that time the patient is likely to have recovered. The diagnosis is therefore usually a clinical one.
Epo-Nots: issues with non-traditional eponyms
Published in Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2020
Another thing prone to eponymy in medicine are animals, here termed Anima-Eponyms. Arguably, these are better understood than the homo and geo-eponyms as they are rooted in a more tangible source of information that has less of a focus on the obscure [16]. For instance, the Lobster Claw Deformity provides immediately derivable information, whilst Kennedy’s Disease, Bornholm Disease and Aguecheek Disease are difficult to classify as traditional or non-traditional eponyms, let alone extrapolate for useful data.