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Medical Therapy
Management of pleurisy has two primary goals: (1) control the pleuritic chest pain, and (2) treat the underlying condition. To achieve pain control, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) commonly are prescribed as the initial therapy. Narcotic analgesics may be required to relieve severe pleuritic chest pain; however, NSAIDs do not suppress respiratory efforts or cough reflex and are the preferred first-line agent.Although a class effect is presumed, human studies on the use of NSAIDs to treat pleuritic chest pain have been limited to indomethacin (Indocin). Indomethacin, in dosages of 50 to 100 mg orally up to three times per day with food, has been found to be effective in relieving pleural pain, with associated improvement in mechanical lung function.[1] To achieve the second management goal, therapies are selected based on the underlying condition.Bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics. Some bacterial infections require a surgical procedure to drain all the infected fluid. Viral infections normally run their course without medications. If a patient has suspected drug-induced pleuritis or drug-induced lupus pleuritis, the causal agent should be discontinued.[2].[3] Smoking cessation should be advised for patients with pleurisy caused by asbestosis.[4] Antimicrobial and antiparasitic agents are selected empirically based on the suspected underlying organism. Decortication is considered in cases of pleuritis associated with refractory pleural effusions resulting from malignancy, chronic renal failure, or rheumatoid pleurisy.Colchicine (1.2 to 2.0 mg orally once per day, or twice per day in a divided dose) is the mainstay of treatment for familial Mediterranean fever.[5]. NSAIDs are first-line therapy for patients with post–cardiac injury syndrome; corticosteroids are reserved for those who are intolerant of or experience no response to NSAIDs.[6].Although oral corticosteroids are recommended for patients with lupus pleuritis, they have not been demonstrated to influence the course of rheumatoid pleuritis.[7].The role of systemic corticosteroids in the treatment of tuberculous pleuritis is controversial. Tuberculous pleuritis is associated with inflammation and fibrosis, and a small number of randomized and quasi-randomized studies with patients who did not have human immunodeficiency virus have assessed the impact of steroids on this process.[8]. Although these studies did show a trend toward benefit (reduction in the number of patients with pleural effusions, thickening, or adhesions), there is insufficient evidence to determine whether steroids are an effective treatment.
References
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|month=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Huggins JT, Sahn SA (2004). "Drug-induced pleural disease". Clinics in Chest Medicine. 25 (1): 141–53. doi:10.1016/S0272-5231(03)00125-4. PMID 15062606. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Rubin RL (2005). "Drug-induced lupus". Toxicology. 209 (2): 135–47. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2004.12.025. PMID 15767026. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Nelson HH, Kelsey KT (2002). "The molecular epidemiology of asbestos and tobacco in lung cancer". Oncogene. 21 (48): 7284–8. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1205804. PMID 12379872. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Ben-Chetrit E, Levy M (1998). "Familial Mediterranean fever". Lancet. 351 (9103): 659–64. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)09408-7. PMID 9500348. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help);|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Wessman DE, Stafford CM (2006). "The postcardiac injury syndrome: case report and review of the literature". Southern Medical Journal. 99 (3): 309–14. PMID 16553111. Retrieved 2013-04-30. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Aiello M, Chetta A, Marangio E, Zompatori M, Olivieri D (2004). "Pleural involvement in systemic disorders". Current Drug Targets. Inflammation and Allergy. 3 (4): 441–7. PMID 15584892. Retrieved 2013-04-30. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ Matchaba PT, Volmink J (2000). "Steroids for treating tuberculous pleurisy". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online) (2): CD001876. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001876. PMID 10796669.
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