ALLMedicine™ Chronic Cough Center

Nov 10th, 2020 - Cough is one of the most frequent symptoms reported to pulmonologists. The role of bronchoscopy in the diagnostic work-up of chronic cough is not clearly defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) a...

Nov 8th, 2020 - Complications of Chronic Cough: Another Call for Treatment Strategies.|2020|Jacobs SS,|

Nov 8th, 2020 - A 48-year-old woman sought a second opinion for dyspnea and chronic productive cough; she was a never smoker. Mild respiratory symptoms persisted since childhood and had progressively worsened over the previous decade. In addition, an unintentiona...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Since chronic cough has common neurobiological mechanisms and pathophysiology with chronic pain, both clinical disorders might be interrelated. Hence, we examined the association between chronic cough and chronic pain in adult subjects in the Rott...

Oct 29th, 2020 - Chronic cough and phlegm are frequently reported chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms. Prior research classified chronic mucus hypersecretion (CMH) based on the presence of these symptoms for ≥3 months, called chronic bronchitis (...

Mar 17th, 2020 - Cough is one of the most common presenting symptoms to general practitioners. The objective of this article is to collate the pediatric components of the CHEST chronic cough guidelines that have recently updated the 2006 guidelines to assist gener...

Feb 27th, 2020 - Chronic cough due to chronic bronchitis (CB) causes significant impairment in quality of life, and effective treatment strategies are needed. We conducted a systematic review on the management of chronic cough due to CB to update the recommendatio...

Feb 24th, 2020 - Evidence for the diagnosis and management of cough due to acute bronchitis in immunocompetent adult outpatients was reviewed as an update to the 2006 "Chronic Cough Due to Acute Bronchitis: American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Evidence-Base...

Jan 23rd, 2020 - Asthma and non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis (NAEB) are among the commonest causes of chronic cough in adults. We sought to determine the role of non-invasive measurements of airway inflammation, including induced sputum and fractional exhaled...

Apr 19th, 2019 - Whether gastroesophageal reflux (GER) or GER disease (GERD) causes chronic cough in children is controversial. Using the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) format, we undertook four systematic reviews. For children with chronic c...

Nov 10th, 2020 - Cough is one of the most frequent symptoms reported to pulmonologists. The role of bronchoscopy in the diagnostic work-up of chronic cough is not clearly defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) a...

Nov 8th, 2020 - Complications of Chronic Cough: Another Call for Treatment Strategies.|2020|Jacobs SS,|

Nov 8th, 2020 - A 48-year-old woman sought a second opinion for dyspnea and chronic productive cough; she was a never smoker. Mild respiratory symptoms persisted since childhood and had progressively worsened over the previous decade. In addition, an unintentiona...

Oct 30th, 2020 - Since chronic cough has common neurobiological mechanisms and pathophysiology with chronic pain, both clinical disorders might be interrelated. Hence, we examined the association between chronic cough and chronic pain in adult subjects in the Rott...

Oct 29th, 2020 - Chronic cough and phlegm are frequently reported chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms. Prior research classified chronic mucus hypersecretion (CMH) based on the presence of these symptoms for ≥3 months, called chronic bronchitis (...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for approximately 85% of all lung cancers. Histologically, it is divided into adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. Patients with non-small cell lung cancer require a complete stagin...

Apr 29th, 2020 - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating chronic lung disease characterized by progressive lung scarring. IPF is described on imaging as well as histopathologically by the usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern. Patients have incre...

Feb 24th, 2020 - A new agent, gefapixant (Afferent Pharmaceuticals/Merck) shows promise in relieving chronic cough, even when the cough has persisted for more than 15 years, results from a company-funded phase 2b trial suggest. Between 4% and 10% of adults worldwi...

Feb 4th, 2020 - In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), comorbid chronic cough is associated with more respiratory symptoms and health care utilization, decreased lung function, and increased inflammatory markers in blood, according to rese.