Chest pain on breathing

Description

Pleuritic chest pain is a type of pain that is caused by problems with the thin layers of tissue that surround the lungs (called the “pleura”). This type of pain feels like a sharp, stabbing chest pain, and it gets worse when you breathe in. Pleuritic chest pain can be caused by the following problems: pneumothorax, pleural effusion, pleuritis, empyema, pericarditis.

Index terms

Chest pain on breathing
Painful respiration
breathing painful

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respiratory pain

Inclusions

Painful respiration

Excludes

MD31 – Pleurisy
MG30.00 – Chronic primary visceral pain
MG30.4 – Chronic secondary visceral pain

Exclusions from above levels

1D83 – Epidemic myalgia
CA02 – acute sore throat NOS
GB23.5 – pain in breast

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MD93 – Dysphagia
ME84.0 – Cervical spine pain
19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

MD30.1 – Other chest pain
MD30.Z – Chest pain, unspecified

Foundation entity

Chest pain on breathing – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1083052714

Part of: MD30: Pain in throat or chest › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified