ArticleCough (London, England)2005
Idiopathic chronic cough: a real disease or a failure of diagnosis?
Article in Cough (London, England), 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- An update and systematic review on drug therapies for the treatment of refractory chronic cough.Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy · 2018Pooled it
- Honey plus coffee versus systemic steroid in the treatment of persistent post-infectious cough: a randomised controlled trial.Primary care respiratory journal : journal of the General Practice Airways Group · 2013Trial
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- Clarifying Terminology in Chronic Cough: The Evolving Role of Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026Review
- Clinical characteristics of the early responders in the treatment of chronic cough.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Cough-hypersensitivity Syndrome-A New Paradigm in the Evaluation of Chronic Refractory Cough and Its Novel Therapeutic Horizons-A Review.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2024Review
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- Herbal MedicineInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Development of a natural language processing algorithm to detect chronic cough in electronic health records.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Observational
- Long-Term Treatment Outcomes after Behavioral Speech Therapy for Chronic Refractory Cough.Lung · 2021Article
- The Cough Reflex: The Janus of Respiratory Medicine.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- Review
- Bronchiectasis and cough: An old relationship in need of renewed attention.Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2019Review
- Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome: A Few More Steps Forward.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2017Review
- Somatic cough syndrome or psychogenic cough-what is the difference?Journal of thoracic disease · 2017Article
- Chronic cough and a normal chest X-ray - a simple systematic approach to exclude common causes before referral to secondary care: a retrospective cohort study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2016Article
- Impact of Air Pollution on Age and Gender Related Increase in Cough Reflex Sensitivity of Healthy Children in Slovakia.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Therapeutic-diagnostic Evaluation of Chronic Cough Amongst Adults: Causes, Symptoms and Management at the Primary Care Level, Malaysia.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2014Article
- Chronic cough and obstructive sleep apnoea in a sleep laboratory-based pulmonary practice.Cough (London, England) · 2013Article
- Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome.Cough (London, England) · 2013Article
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Abstract
Despite extensive diagnostic evaluation and numerous treatment trials, a number of patients remain troubled by a chronic and uncontrollable cough. Eosinophilic bronchitis, atopic cough and non-acid reflux have been recently added to the diagnostic spectrum for chronic cough. In some cases, failure to consider these conditions may explain treatment failure. However, a subset of patients with persisting symptoms may be regarded as having an idiopathic cough. These individuals are most commonly female, of postmenopausal age and frequently report viral upper respiratory tract infections as an initiating event. This paper seeks to explore the validity of idiopathic cough as a distinct clinical entity.
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