A prospective study of complications of pulmonary artery catheterizations in 500 consecutive patients: Boyd KD, Thomas SJ, Gold J, et al Chest 84:245–249 Sep 1983
✍ Scribed by William H Campbell
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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✦ Synopsis
chronic cough, but no dyspnea or wheezing. None smoked or had any known lung disease. None had previously received treatment for asthma. Most patients had an "allergic" history; 27 had positive skin tests to local antigens and 24 had eosinophilia. Of 30 patients, 24 had normal FEV 1 on pulmonary function testing; in all 24 there was an exaggerated response to histamine challenge, a measurement of airway hyper-responsiveness. Self-scored nocturnal cough diaries were kept, and the results showed a dramatic response to treatment, with 21 of 30 patients becoming cough free. These patients are not asthmatic in the usual definition of the disease, but it is clear that nocturnal cough can be a manifestation of airway hyper-responsiveness and may respond to the usual anti-asthma medications.
Gerald B Pogoriler, MD response, and might be useful in the agitated young child who will not or cannot cooperate with the aerosol treatment.