Cough
Subtitle: causes, mechanisms, and therapy
By: edited by Kian Fan Chung, John G. Widdicombe, Homer A. Boushey
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781405116343
Subjects: Cough
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The clinical and pathophysiological challenge of cough / Kian Fan Chung; title: Epidemiology of cough / Alyn H. Morice; title: A brief overview of the mechanisms of cough / John G. Widdicombe; title: Clinical assessment of cough / Lorcan P.A. Mcgarvey; title: Measurement and assessment of cough / Kian Fan Chung; title: Cough sensitivity: the use of provocation tests / Rick W. Fuller; title: Causes, assessment and measurement of cough in children / Anne B. Chang; title: The quality of life in coughers / Richard S. Irwin, Cynthia T. French & Kenneth E. Fletcher; title: Cough in lower airway infections / Wee-Yang Pek & Homer A. Boushey; title: Cough and gastro-oesophageal reflux / Alvin J. Ing; title: Cough in postnasal drip, rhinitis and rhinosinusitus / Bruno C. Palombini & Elisabeth Araujo; title: Cough and airway hyperresponsiveness / Paul M. O'Byrne; title: Cough in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Kian Fan Chung & Peter M.A. Calverley; title: Cough in suppurative airway diseases / Robert Wilson; title: Cough in cancer patients / Sam H. Ahmedzai & Nisar Ahmed; title: Sensory pathways for the cough reflex / Stuart B. Mazzone, Brendan J. Canning & John G. Widdicombe; title: Neurogenesis of cough / Donald C. Bolser ... [et al.]; title: Plasticity of vagal afferent fibres mediating cough / Marian Kollarik & Bradley J. Undem; title: Motor mechanisms and the mechanics of cough / Giovanni A. Fontana; title: Mucus hypersecretion and mucus clearance in cough / W. Michael Foster; title: Animal models of cough / Maria G. Belvisi & David J. Hele; title: Mechanisms of actions of centrally acting antitussives: electrophysiological and neurochemical analysis / Kazuo Takahama; title: Pharmacology of peripherally acting antitussives / Sandra M. Reynolds, Domenico Spina & Clive P. Page; title: Current and potential future antitussive therapies / Peter V. Dicpinigaitis / Placebo effects of antitussive treatments on cough associated with acute upper respiratory tract infection / Ronald Eccles; title: Mucoactive agents for the treatment of cough / Bruce K. Rubin; title: Management of cough / Kian Fan Chung.