Unusual cause of chest pain, Bornholm disease, a forgotten entity; case report and review of literature

Amos Lal; Jamal Akhtar; Sangeetha Isaac; Ajay Kumar Mishra; Mohammad Saud Khan; Mohsen Noreldin; George M Abraham

doi:10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.10.005

Unusual cause of chest pain, Bornholm disease, a forgotten entity; case report and review of literature

Respir Med Case Rep. 2018 Oct 9:25:270-273. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.10.005. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Amos Lal¹, Jamal Akhtar¹, Sangeetha Isaac², Ajay Kumar Mishra¹, Mohammad Saud Khan³, Mohsen Noreldin¹, George M Abraham¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, 123 Summer Street, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA, 01608, USA.
² Department of Intensive Care Unit, Sengkang General Hospital, 110 Sengkang East Way, Singapore 544886, Singapore.
³ Division of Hospital Medicine, Miriam Hospital, RI, USA.

Abstract

Chest pain is a common symptom culminating in hospital admissions and specialist referrals. Although cardiac work up is pursued in most of the cases, cardiac etiology is found to be the culprit in minority of the cases. Acute chest pain is a clinical syndrome that may be caused by almost any condition affecting the thorax, abdomen, or internal organs. On occasions this extensive and expensive diagnostic work up can be avoided with awareness of commoner and non-lethal reasons. We report a case of a woman with Bornholm disease secondary to Coxsackievirus B5 (CB5) infection and supplementary review of literature till date.

Keywords: Chest X ray; Chest pain; Coxsackievirus; Pleurodynia.

Publication types

Case Reports