angina

Angina (from the Latin angor 'oppression') is the medical name for tightness and anxiety or tightness. The word is often used for diseases when the symptoms are so pronounced that reference should be made to the main symptom in the name .

Diseases that can be accompanied by a pronounced feeling of tightness are:

1. Angina tonsillaris , which is usually abbreviated as angina or tonsillitis (tonsillitis) and which is an infection of the tonsils , usually caused by streptococci or staphylococci , but also by viruses
2. Angina phlegmonosa , an inflammation of the tonsil (s) that progresses in the tissue and forms an abscess
3. Angina Ludovici is the name of a phlegmon of the floor of the mouth
4. Angina Plaut-Vincent (angina ulcero-membranacea), an inflammation of the tonsils named after its first description, with mostly undisturbed general health
5. Lateral cord angina , inflammation of the lymphatic vessels along the throat
6. Angina pectoris - often abbreviated as angina or in medical jargon also called stenocardia. The complaints themselves are referred to as pectanginal . This is the pain that is mostly localized behind the breastbone (with retrosternal tightness) and radiating into the left arm when there is insufficient blood flow in the coronary arteries , which is to be seen as a harbinger of a heart attack . The variant angina , the angina decubitus and the crescendo angina are all subtypes of angina pectoris, the latter two for the subgroup of unstable angina are counted.
7. Angina abdominalis , a painful circulatory disorder of the mesenteric vessels (intestinal wall).
8. Angina renalis , a concept for acute kidney damage introduced in 2010 .

literature

• Karl Wurm, AM Walter: Infectious Diseases. In: Ludwig Heilmeyer (ed.): Textbook of internal medicine. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955; 2nd edition ibid. 1961, pp. 9-223, here: pp. 95-102 ( angina , synonym: tonsillitis, strep throat, sore throat, tonsillitis).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ for a more precise etymology see angina. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved October 17, 2016
2. ↑ Raphael Weiss, Melanie Meersch a. a .: Acute kidney damage. An often underestimated problem in perioperative medicine. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 116, Issue 49, December 6, 2019, pp. 833–841, here: p. 836.

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