Pleurisy

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**Pleurisy**
*Classifications and external resources*
ICD-10	J90, R09.1
ICD-9	511

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs, which can cause painful respiration and other symptoms. Pleurisy can be generated by a variety of infectious and non-infectious causes.

1 Symptoms
2 Notable deaths from pleurisy
3 Famous pleurisy survivors
4 References

[edit] Symptoms

Fever
Cough
Chills
Shortness of breath
Weight loss
Poor appetite
Sharp chest pain with breathing. Pain can limit the movement on the side of the chest with pleurisy. The pain can also be in the back around where the lungs are.
Rapid shallow breaths
Inability to take a deep breath
Itching in sites on the back (near the site of the lungs, but no visible rashes)

[edit] Notable deaths from pleurisy

Charlemagne, on January 28, 814 CE, at the age of seventy-two.
Emperor Constantine IX, on 11 January 1055. Constantine had retired to a monastery in an attempt to relieve his constant pain, with a daily regimen that included hours-long baths. He lingered too long one day in the fall of 1054 and caught a chill that resulted in pleurisy.
Count Raymond III of Tripoli, in 1187, at the age of 47. Some claim that grief over the Battle of Hattin and the siege of Jerusalem destroyed his will to live.
Muhammad II of Khwarezm in 1220 while escaping Mongol soldiers pursuing him, to an island known as Abeskum in the Caspian Sea with nothing but a tattered shirt on his back.
Hernan Cortes, Conquistador (Conqueror) of Mexico, on December 2, 1547 at the age of 62.
Benjamin Franklin, on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84.
Educator, scientist, and writer Joseph Priestley who is often credited with the discovery of oxygen, in 1804.
Robert Fulton, an American inventor, in 1815, after a long history of the condition.
William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, in 1841, at the age of 68.
Francis Scott Key, author of the Star-Spangled Banner, in 1843.
Lesbian poet Renée Vivien, in 1909, at the age of 31.
Opera star Enrico Caruso, in 1921.
Sunni author and spiritual leader Ahmed Rida Khan, in 1921, at the age of 63.
English writer and poet Thomas Hardy in January 1928, at the age of 87.
Swedish film director Mauritz Stiller, in 1928.
Ballerina Anna Pavlova, in 1931. She refused an operation that might have saved her life because it would have left her unable to dance.
Minister/Scholar J. Gresham Machen, in 1937.

[edit] Famous pleurisy survivors

Robert Chesebrough, the founder of Chesebrough-Ponds and inventor of Vaseline, coated himself with petroleum jelly from head-to-toe during a severe bout of pleurisy; he soon recovered.
English writer and artist Mervyn Peake survived pleurisy as a child while living in China, around 1920.
Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles, suffered pleurisy as a child in Liverpool.
Basketball player LeBron James had pleurisy in October of 2005. He was treated and released.
Koichi Tohei, the founder of the Ki-Society and Ki-Aikido, survived by practicing Zen and meditation thouroughly.