THE SYNDROME OF COUGH SYNCOPE
Authors: A KERR, V J DERBES
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1953)

Article1 December 1953THE SYNDROME OF COUGH SYNCOPEANDREW KERR JR., M.D., VINCENT J. DERBES, M.D., F.A.C.P.ANDREW KERR JR., M.D., VINCENT J. DERBES, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-39-6-1240 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDescribed largely in foreign writings and reported under a variety of names† in obscure journals, the clinical entity of cough syncope is not well known to American physicians. Recent cardiodynamic studies of the syndrome by McCann and colleagues1 stimulated interest, but there is in the American literature no full description of the clinical picture. From personal observation of 25 examples of the condition a distinct clinical syndrome has crystallized.HISTORICAL ASPECTSAlthough certainly known to Heberden2and possibly to Sydenham,3syncope following cough was first clearly described by Charcot4in 1876. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New Orleans, Louisiana*Received for publication July 3, 1953.From the Departments of Medicine, Louisiana State University School of Medicine and Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.Presented, in part, at the Regional Meeting of the American College of Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 15, 1952.†Laryngeal vertigo, vertige laryngé, laryngeal ictus, ictus laryngé, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngeal apoplexy, chorea laryngis, lipothymia laryngea, lipothynise laryngée, laryngeal syncope, Kehlkopfschwindel, Larynxcrisis, spasmus glottidis adultorum, complete glottis spasm in adults, a rare form of laryngeal neurosis, ictus primitif, ictus idiopathique, ictus essentiel, tussigenic syncope, ictus secondaire, ictus symptomatique, laryngoplegie, bronchial syncope, Larynxschwindel, la toux obnubilante, accident laryngé, la toux vertigineuse, laryngisme de l'adulte, apoplektiforme Bewusstseinsverluste bei kramphaften Husten, Halsneurose, spasme apoplectiforme du larynx, laringismo inhibitorio, the cough syndrome, tussive syncope, post-tussive syncope, tussigenic ictus, bronchial ictus. 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