Dry cough and dyspnoea rapidly increasing to respiratory failure in a male smoker

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1122-1125

  Sigala, I ^a   Kalomenidis, I ^a   Malagari, K ^b   Rontogianni, D ^a   Kapotsis, G ^a   Vassilakopoulos, T ^a   Roussos, C ^a   Papiris, S A ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; MACROLIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RAMIPRIL; TAMSULOSIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHOLELITHIASIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEROLOGY; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY; TACHYPNEA; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COUGH; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444434294     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.05.00088304     Document Type: Article

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