- Title
- Extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness as a mechanism of post infectious cough: case report
- Creator
- Ryan, Nicole M.; Gibson, Peter G.
- Relation
- Cough Vol. 4
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-9974-4-7
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Post-infectious cough is a common diagnosis in people with chronic cough. However, the specific infectious aetiology and cough mechanisms are seldom identified. We report a case of chronic cough after Mycoplasma pneumoniae lower respiratory tract infection with extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness as the cough mechanism. Extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness may be a common mechanism in post-infectious cough which may be useful both diagnostically and therapeutically since chronic cough with extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness responds to speech pathology treatment.
- Subject
- chronic cough; mycoplasma pneumoniae; extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness; post-infectious cough
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/38884
- Identifier
- uon:4377
- Identifier
- ISSN:1745-9974
- Language
- eng
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