ERS TASK FORCE The diagnosis and management of chronic cough
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چکیده
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Management strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 The epidemiology of chronic chough . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Chronic cough in adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Chronic cough in childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Clinical history and examination of the patient with chronic cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Baseline investigations for patients with chronic cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484 Asthmatic cough and eosinophilic bronchitis . . . . . . . 485 Questions in cough-variant asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Cough and gastro-oesophageal reflux. . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Rhinitis and sinusitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Problems arising from the ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Chronic cough in children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 Reflux and aspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Immunodeficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Primary ciliary dyskinesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Congenital anomalies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Foreign body aspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Psychogenic cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Other tests in chronic cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
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ERS TASK FORCE ERS guidelines on the assessment of cough
CONTENTS Summary of key points and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257 Capsaicin and citric acid inhalation cough challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258 Cough induced by ...
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