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  ReviewIdiopathic chronic cough: a real disease or a failure of diagnosis?LPA McGarvey  Department of Medicine, The Queen's University of Belfast, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT126BJ, N Ireland, UK  author email corresponding author email
Cough 2005,
1:9doi:10.1186/1745-9974-1-9
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23 September 2005 |
Abstract
Despite extensive diagnostic evaluation and numerous treatment trials, a number of patients remain troubled by a chronic and uncontrollable cough. Eosinophilic bronchitis, atopic cough and non-acid reflux have been recently added to the diagnostic spectrum for chronic cough. In some cases, failure to consider these conditions may explain treatment failure. However, a subset of patients with persisting symptoms may be regarded as having an idiopathic cough. These individuals are most commonly female, of postmenopausal age and frequently report viral upper respiratory tract infections as an initiating event. This paper seeks to explore the validity of idiopathic cough as a distinct clinical entity. | 
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