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Costocondrite

Última revisão: 20 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 28 Oct 2024

Resumo

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • dor torácica
  • sensibilidade da parede torácica
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Other diagnostic factors

  • edema da parede torácica
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Risk factors

  • microtrauma
  • sexo feminino
  • idade >40 anos
  • infecção na ferida de esternotomia
  • uso de substâncias por via intravenosa
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • tratamento empírico com anti-inflamatórios não esteroidais
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Investigations to consider

  • ensaio com anestésico local e corticosteroide
  • radiografia torácica
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) do tórax
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) do tórax
  • hemocultura e/ou cultura da ferida
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

inflamatória

infecciosa

Contributors

Authors

Fadi Badlissi, MD, MSc
Fadi Badlissi

Attending Physician

Medical Director of the Musculoskeletal Medical Unit

Department of Orthopedics & Division of Rheumatology

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston

MA

Disclosures

FB has been reimbursed by ANI Pharmaceuticals and Janssen and Amgen for attending an advisory board meeting.

Peer reviewers

Don L. Goldenberg, MD

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

Boston

MA

Disclosures

DLG declares that he has no competing interests.

Richard G. Chang, MD, MPH, FAAPMR

Associate Program Director

Sports Medicine Fellowship

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York

NY

Declarações

RGC declares that he is the President of the New York Society Of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2023-2025), is State Advocacy Chair and a Health Policy and Legislative Committee member for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and is a Health Policy Division and Ultrasound Education Committee member for the Spine Intervention Society.

Richard Wakefield, BM, FRCP, MD

Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology

Section of Musculoskeletal Disease

Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine

Chapel Allerton Hospital

Leeds

UK

Declarações

RW declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

BMJ Best Practice topics are updated on a rolling basis in line with developments in evidence and guidance. The peer reviewers listed here have reviewed the content at least once during the history of the topic.

Disclosures

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Principais artigos

Mott T, Jones G, Roman K. Costochondritis: rapid evidence review. Am Fam Physician. 2021 Jul 1;104(1):73-8.Texto completo

Proulx AM, Zryd TW. Costochondritis: diagnosis and treatment. Am Fam Physician. 2009 Sep 15;80(6):617-20.Texto completo  Resumo

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