Pericardial friction rub is one of several, similar sounds.

In children, rheumatic fever is often the cause of pericardial friction rub.

If a friction rub is heard, this can be a sign of pericarditis (inflammation around the heart.)

She was looking up at him with obvious arousal, her face slightly flushed as if someone had given all her senses a friction rub.

During medical doctor examination,a pericardial friction rub can be auscultated indicating precarditis.

This is called pleural friction rub.

The classic sign of pericarditis is a friction rub auscultated on the cardiovascular examination usually on the lower left sternal border.

Occasionally, a pleural friction rub may be audible over the affected area of the lung (mostly in PE with infarct).

Rubs: Patients with pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart (pericardium), may have an audible pericardial friction rub.

Sounds made by rubbing of swollen (inflamed) lung tissue on the lining of the lung cavity (pleural friction rub).

Pleural friction rub produces a scraping, raspy sound that occurs at the end of your inhalation and the beginning of your exhalation.

Pericardial friction rub may have one, two, or three audible components, whereas the similar pleural friction rub ordinarily has two audible components.

Various abnormalities can be found on auscultation, such as a third and fourth heart sound, systolic murmurs, paradoxical splitting of the second heart sound, a pericardial friction rub and rales over the lung.