Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine 5(2):99-103 · April 2010

Authors: Piattella Marco, Potena Alfredo, Zanasi Alessandro

Abstract

Chronic cough is one of the symptoms most frequently reported by patients and it often poses a diagnostic challenge for the physician. Cough variant asthma is one of the most widely recognized causes of chronic cough, together with gastroesophageal reflux syndrome and chronic inflammation of the upper airways. Atopic cough, a recently reported new clinical entity, presents different clinical and functional characteristics compared with asthma and the other above-mentioned causes of chronic cough. This paper describes the pathogenetic mechanisms of atopic cough and cough variant asthma based on from the most recent literature on the argument.

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Author: Nardini S, De Benedetto F, Sanguinetti CM, Bellofiore S, Carlone S, Privitera S, Sagliocca L, Tupputi E; with the collaboration of The Consensus Conference Group, Baccarani C, Caiffa G, Calabrese MC, Capuozzo A, Cauchi S, Conio V, Coratella G, Crismancich F, Dal Negro RW, Dellarole F, Delucchi M, Favaretti C, Forte S, Gallo FM, Giuliano R, Grandi M, Grillo A, Gualano MR, Guffanti E, Locicero S, Lombardo FP, Mantero M, Marasso R, Martino L, Mastroberardino M, Mereu C, Messina R, Neri M, Novelletto BF, Parente P, Pasquinucci S, Pistolesi M, Polverino M, Posca A, Richeldi L, Roccia F, Giustini ES, Salemi M, Santacroce S, Schisano M, Schisano M, Selvi E, Silenzi A, Soverina P, Taranto C, Ugolini M, Visaggi P, Zanasi A.

Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine 4(6):423-429 · December 2009

Authors: Zanasi Alessandro, Piattella Marco, Potena Alfredo

Abstract

It is now established that the presence of enviromental pollution in our cities today has serious effects on the broncho-pulmonary system, effects that are largely linked to the traffic situation. Although the risks correlated to the deterioration in the air we breathe have been well known since the 1950s,

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