| Bornholm disease | |
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| Other names | Epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia, devils grip, Bamble disease |
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| Coxsackie B virus, the most common cause of Bornholm disease | |
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| Specialty | Infectious diseases  |
| Symptoms | intermittent pleuritic chest pain, intermittent abdominal pain, fever |
| Complications | rare complications include myocarditis, respiratory failure, hepatic necrosis with coagulopathy, and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) |
| Duration | between one day and one week |
| Causes | Coxsackie B, Coxsackie A, Echovirus |
| Diagnostic method | clinical diagnosis after ruling out more emergent causes of chest and abdominal pain |
| Differential diagnosis | Acute appendicitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, pulmonary embolism, acute coronary syndrome, costochondritis, amongst others |
| Prevention | Hand hygiene |
| Treatment | NSAIDs, intercostal Lidocaine injections, symptomatic treatment |
| Prognosis | Favorable |
| Deaths | None reported |
Bornholm disease, also known as epidemic pleurodynia,[1] is a condition characterized by myositis of the abdomen or chest caused by the Coxsackie B virus or other viruses.[2] The myositis manifests as an intermittent stabbing pain in the musculature that is seen primarily in children and young adults.[3]
It is named after the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea where an outbreak was one of the first to be described.
- ^ Hopkins, JH (May 1950). "Bornholm disease". British Medical Journal. 1 (4664): 1230–2. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4664.1230. PMC 2038054. PMID 15420445.
- ^ "epidemic pleurodynia" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Johannessen, I.; Burns, S.M. (2012). Picornaviruses: Meningitis; paralysis, rashes, intercostal myositis; myocarditis; infectious hepatitis; common cold. Churchill Livingstone. pp. 483–496. doi:10.1016/B978-0-7020-4089-4.00063-9. ISBN 9780702040894.