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1: Cough. 2008 Aug 4;4:7.Click here to read Click here to read Links

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

Ryan NM, Gibson PG.

School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. Peter.Gibson@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au.

ABSTRACT: 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.

PMID: 18673583 [PubMed - in process]

PMCID: PMC2517066