Extrathoracic airway hyperresponsiveness as a mechanism of post infectious cough: case report

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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