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  2. Costochondritis - Wikipedia

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    Costochondritis is a common condition that is responsible for approximately 13–36% of acute chest pain-related concerns from adults depending on the setting, with 14–39% for adolescents. [8] It is most often seen in individuals who are older than 40 years of age and occurs more often in women than in men. [3]

  3. Slipping rib syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Costochondritis is a common cause of chest pain, consisting of up to 30% of chest pain complaints in emergency departments. The pain is typically diffused with the upper costochondral or sternocostal junctions most frequently involved, unlike slipping rib syndrome, which involves the lower rib cage.

  4. Chest pain - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms include chronic cough, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and pleuritic chest pain if the pleura is involved, often worsening with deep breaths or coughing. [21] Tracheitis: Tracheitis, usually a bacterial driven inflammation of the trachea, which often narrows the airway. It can present as stridor and may cause respiratory distress ...

  5. What It Means When You Have Chest Pain That Comes and Goes - AOL

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    Costochondritis “Also referred to as inflammatory arthritis of the sternum/rib cage,” says Dr. Cantillon. “This is a variant of osteoarthritis.” The type of chest pain varies, but it is ...

  6. Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea - Wikipedia

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    With paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea specifically, it is felt while sleeping and causes a person to wake up after about 1 to 2 hours of sleep. [ 3 ] More serious forms of dyspnea can be identified through accompanying findings, such as low blood pressure, decreased respiratory rate, altered mental status, hypoxia, cyanosis, stridor, or unstable ...

  7. Bornholm disease - Wikipedia

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    Bornholm disease typically lasts between one day and one week with an average illness duration of four days. In 20% of cases studied, the illness lasted between one and two weeks. The illness in children was found to be shorter than the illness in adults. [15] Patients typically make a complete recovery with supportive care. [16]

  8. Talk:Costochondritis - Wikipedia

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    Costochondritis is the first article on my list! I will be doing my best to retain as much information as possible while bringing it up to date with recent and reliable information. There are several references used throughout the article that are extremely old, and several that do not meet the WP:MEDRS guidelines from what I can see. If there ...

  9. Sleep inversion - Wikipedia

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    Sleep inversion may be a symptom of elevated blood ammonia levels [2] and is often an early symptom of hepatic encephalopathy. [3] Sleep inversion is a feature of African trypanosomiasis, after which the disease takes its common name, "African sleeping sickness"; [4] sleep-wake cycle disturbances are the most common indication that the disease has reached the stage where infection spreads into ...