Cough variant asthma: A major cause of chronic cough

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 189-196

  Niimi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway remodeling; Chronic cough; Cough variant asthma; Eosinophilic inflammation; Inhaled corticosteroid

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CICLESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; WHEEZING;

EID: 61749092104     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31817e3059     Document Type: Review

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