ALLMedicine™ Costochondritis Center

Nov 29th, 2022 - Tietze syndrome is a rare form of chest wall costochondritis with joint swelling which can cause significant chest pain and decline in ability of daily activities. There is no standardized treatment protocol. The aim of this study was to assess th...

Oct 15th, 2022 - Non-traumatic costochondritis, which manifests as pain and tenderness over the anterior chest wall, may be associated with inflammatory arthritis affecting the upper costochondral and sternocostal joints. Local corticosteroid injection is helpful ...

Aug 21st, 2022 - Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic syndrome (VEXAS syndrome) is a recently described genetic disorder that gathers autoinflammatory symptoms and myeloid dysplasia. The first description was reported in 2020, and subsequently,...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Relapsing polychondritis (RP) patients with tracheal cartilage involvement are different from other patients. The objective of this study was to compare the clinical features and disease patterns between a respiratory involvement subgroup and a no...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Persons with the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) report a wide range of respiratory symptoms, most commonly shortness of breath, exercise limitation, and cough. Also reported are noisy breathing attributed to asthma, difficulty with deep inhalation,...

Apr 2nd, 2013 - Chronic chest pain can arise from a variety of etiologies. However, of those potential causes, the most life-threatening include cardiac disease. Chronic cardiac chest pain may be caused either by ischemia or atherosclerotic coronary artery diseas...

Dec 6th, 2016 - Thumbtack Intra-dermal Needle is a type of intra-dermal needle with a round thumbtack like needle head that is perpendicular to the needle and its sharp end. It is also named as Push-pin Intra-dermal Needle. The Thumbtack Intra-dermal Needle is de...

Dec 19th, 2018 - Medscape Editor's Key Points: Complex diagnostics should be interpreted by a specialist, even if a physician fears that over-referring could harm the patient. Being an effective physician often means asking for help with patient care. If a problem...

Sep 28th, 2011 - Hello. This is Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman of Columbia University speaking to you for Medscape. Today, I would like to address the issue of psychiatric diagnosis. As most of you are aware, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-...

Dec 29th, 2010 - Clinical Presentation The patient is a 17-year-old girl who had been sick for 1 week prior to admission to the hospital. She had constant right upper quadrant pain and pleuritic right-sided chest pain. She was seen as an outpatient and treated wit...

Dec 29th, 2010 - Clinical Presentation The patient is a 17-year-old girl who had been sick for 1 week prior to admission to the hospital. She had constant right upper quadrant pain and pleuritic right-sided chest pain. She was seen as an outpatient and treated wit...