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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2019 Pharmacists play an important role in the assessment and management of patients with cough. By obtaining a focused clinical history from the patient, they can identify patients who need to be referred to their physician or to the emergency room, as well as which patients can be managed at home.
Ajay S, Kasi, Rory J, Kamerman-Kretzmer
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Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough
Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2022 Chronic cough is globally prevalent across all age groups. This disorder is challenging to treat because many pulmonary and extrapulmonary conditions can present with chronic cough, and cough can also be present without any identifiable underlying cause or be refractory to therapies that improve associated conditions.
Kian Fan Chung +8 more
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Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012 Around 16 million cases of whooping cough (pertussis) occur worldwide each year, mostly in low-income countries. Much of the morbidity of whooping cough in children and adults is due to the effects of the paroxysmal cough. Cough treatments proposed include corticosteroids, beta2-adrenergic agonists, pertussis-specific immunoglobulin, antihistamines and
Wang, K +6 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 A 63-year-old woman presents with a 1-year history of a chronic dry cough, associated with a sensation of “irritation” in the throat. Prolonged bouts of coughing are associated with stress urinary incontinence and occasionally end with retching and vomiting.
Smith, Jaclyn A., Woodcock, Ashley
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The epidemiology of cough [PDF]
Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2011 Cough is a common symptom that affects a large proportion of the general population, but has been somewhat neglected in the epidemiological literature in the recent years. Various types of coughs are described based on life-long epidemiological surveys.
Kauffmann, Francine, Varraso, Raphaëlle
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Cough, 2013 About 40% of the population will experience chronic cough at some point during their lives and it tends to be more common in women (Thorax 58:901-7, 2003). Post-nasal drip (or upper airway cough syndrome), gastro-esophageal reflux disease and asthma are considered the most common causes.
Guri Sandhu, Romana Kuchai
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Cough * 1: Chronic cough in adults [PDF]
Thorax, 2003 The investigation and treatment of chronic cough in adults is generally rewarding, provided there is an understanding of its aetiology, particularly when it arises from sites outside the respiratory tract.
Jack A Kastelik, Alyn H. Morice
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Cough * 2: Chronic cough in children [PDF]
Thorax, 2003 Chronic cough is a common problem in childhood. Viral infections are the most prevalent cause, but other rarer disorders should be excluded whenever cough appears unusually severe and/or frequent, and when there is evidence of failure to thrive and growth retardation.
De Jongste, J.C., Shields, Michael
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Cough variant asthma and atopic cough
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2010 Chronic cough has been reported to be the fifth most com- mon 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 asthma and can be sub-classified into: cough-variant asthma, atopic cough ...
Elisa Chellini +2 more
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Lung India, 2016 Lipoid pneumonia is a rare form of pneumonia caused by accumulation of exogenous or endogenous lipids in the pulmonary system. Symptoms can often range from being asymptomatic to presenting with chest pain, fevers and shortness of breath. High resolution CT and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) remain important in establishing the diagnosis.
Karar, Sayed, Bhatti, Hammad
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