Background: Cough-variant asthma (CVA) and cough-predominant asthma (CPA) are the major causes of persistent cough in Japan. The utility of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) measurement in the differential diagnosis of persistent cough has been ...
Yoshihiro Kanemitsu +2 more
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We report herein two cases of atopic cough in which Basidiomycetes was detected from pharyngeal swabs and in which gargling with amphotericin B was efficacious. One case is a 38-year-old woman and the other is a 54-year-old woman.
Haruhiko Ogawa, Masaki Fujimura
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Recurrent Spasmodic Croup‐Like Episodes With Cough‐Predominant Symptoms in an Atopic School‐Aged Child: The Importance of Integrated Upper‐ and Lower‐Airway Management [PDF]
Recurrent spasmodic croup is uncommon in school‐aged children and may reflect an atopy‐associated upper‐airway dysfunction rather than a viral illness.
Rina Sakaguchi +4 more
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Cough Variant Asthma and Atopic Cough
Chronic cough has been reported to be the fifth most common complaint seen by primary care physicians in the world, the third in Italy. Chronic cough in non-smoking, non-treated with ACE-inhibitor adults with normal chest radiogram could be a symptom of ...
Alessandro Zanasi
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We have shown that some patients presenting with chronic bronchodilator-resistant non-productive cough have global atopic tendency, airway cough hyper-sensitivity without non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness and eosinophilic inflammation of the ...
Kazuo Kasahara +2 more
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Clinical and phenotypic characteristics of chronic cough patients without sputum eosinophilia [PDF]
Background Corticosteroid treatment has no effect in patients without sputum eosinophilia. Sputum neutrophils and lymphocytes contribute to chronic cough hypersensitivity. The characteristics of chronic cough patients without sputum eosinophilia have not
Qiaoli Chen +13 more
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Predictive value of FeNO, eosinophils, and IgE for airway hyperresponsiveness in children with chronic cough: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of children with chronic cough and to evaluate the predictive value of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), peripheral blood eosinophil (EOS) count, and total immunoglobulin E (IgE) for airway ...
Jimei Bian +5 more
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Chronic cough and chronic pruritus in older adults: a population-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
Background Chronic pruritus (CP) and chronic cough (CC) are prevalent conditions with shared underlying mechanisms, including neuronal sensitisation and inflammation.
Juliette F. Bollemeijer +5 more
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Pattern of Response to Bronchial Challenge With Histamine in Patients With Non-Atopic Cough-Variant and Classic Asthma [PDF]
Sanja Hromis +2 more
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Pay attention to standardized diagnosis and treatment of corticosteroid-responsive cough [PDF]
The global prevalence of chronic cough in adults is 9.6%.In 2008, the cough special issue of Lancet published a diagnosis and treatment plan to distinguish the causes of chronic cough based on eosinophilic airway inflammation or sensitivity to ...
SHI Cuiqin, YU Li
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