Overview
- Offers an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of coughing
- Includes useful algorithms and suggestions for cough management
- Explains the pharmacology and efficacy of cough drugs
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Clinical Assessment of Cough
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Cough Therapy
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Keywords
- Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease
- Upper Airway Cough Syndrome
- expectoration
- cough sounds
- cough reflex
- experimentally-induced cough
- postnasal drip
- asthma-related cough
- gerd-related chronic cough
- Hypersensitivity Cough Syndrome
- pediatric cough
- cough suppressants
- expectorants
- non-pharmacologic treatment of cough
- pharmacotherapy
About this book
This book provides an updated and comprehensive overview of cough, while opening new perspectives for their treatment and management. It enables readers to not only discover new physiologic features and mechanisms but also to gain an in-depth understanding of the diagnostic workup of cough, still one of the most frequent and challenging symptoms in daily medical practice.
The book also provides insights into cough’s features and pathogenesis, as well as into pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments. The most frequent causes of chronic cough (asthma, postnasal drip, gastroesophageal reflux and chronic hypersensitivity syndrome) and different types of pediatric cough are also explored.
Coughing is a common symptom, occurring in many clinical settings, and as such the book appeals a broad readership, including pulmonologists specialized in cough, general practitioners, internists, pediatricians and otorhinolaryngologists.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giovanni Fontana is associate professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Florence, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at the hospital “I Fraticini”. He is also associate director of the diagnostic laboratory of the Respiratory Pathophysiology Unit at the University of Florence. He is fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, member of the European Respiratory Society, Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine and International Society for Study of Cough. His research interests include the pathophysiology of asthma, neurophysiology of breathing, respiratory control in humans, control of airway smooth muscle, airway defense mechanisms and the clinical physiology of cough.
Donatella Mutolo, PhD, is Associate professor of Physiology at the University of Florence, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Physiology. She is a member of the American Physiological Society and the Physiological Society of Italy. Her research activity has been devoted to several projects concerning the central nervous mechanisms involved in the respiratory rhythmogenesis and in the mediation of airway defensive reflexes, especially the cough reflex. Her laboratory has developed this line of research obtaining important results on central mechanisms implicated in the down- and up-regulation of the cough reflex by using microinjection techniques, emphasizing the importance of two medullary structures, the caudal nucleus tractus solitarii and the caudal ventral respiratory group.
Donatella Mutolo, PhD, is Associate professor of Physiology at the University of Florence, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Physiology. She is a member of the American Physiological Society and the Physiological Society of Italy. Her research activity has been devoted to several projects concerning the central nervous mechanisms involved in the respiratory rhythmogenesis and in the mediation of airway defensive reflexes, especially the cough reflex. Her laboratory has developed this line of research obtaining important results on central mechanisms implicated in the down- and up-regulation of the cough reflex by using microinjection techniques, emphasizing the importance of two medullary structures, the caudal nucleus tractus solitarii and the caudal ventral respiratory group.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cough: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
Editors: Alessandro Zanasi, Giovanni A. Fontana, Donatella Mutolo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48571-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48570-2Published: 26 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48573-3Published: 27 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48571-9Published: 25 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 181
Number of Illustrations: 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, General Practice / Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Otorhinolaryngology, Pharmacotherapy, Gastroenterology