REVIEW SERIES: Chronic cough: Introduction

Birring SS , Prudon B. , Carr AJ , Singh SJ , Morgan MD , Pavord ID Development of a symptom specific health status measure for patients with chronic cough: Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ). Thorax 2003; 58(4): 339—43.

Irwin RS , Baumann MH , Bolser DC et al.; American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Diagnosis and management of cough executive summary: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 2006 Jan; 129(1 Suppl): 1S—23S.

Morice AH , McGarvey L. , Pavord I. ; British Thoracic Society Cough Guideline Group. Recommendations for the management of cough in adults. Thorax 2006 Sep; 61(Suppl 1): i1—24.

Morice AH , Fontana GA , Sovijarvi AR et al.; ERS Task Force. The diagnosis and management of chronic cough . Eur Respir J 2004 Sep; 24(3): 481—92.

Raj AA and Birring SS Clinical assessment of chronic cough severity. Pul Pharmacol Ther, in press.

Birring SS , Passant C. , Patel RB , Prudon B. , Murty GE , Pavord ID Chronic tonsillar enlargement and cough: preliminary evidence of a novel and treatable cause of chronic cough. Eur Respir J 2004; 23(2): 199—201.

Gibson PG , Dolovich J. , Denburg J. , Ramsdale EH , Hargreave FE Chronic cough: eosinophilic bronchitis without asthma. Lancet 1989 Jun 17; 1(8651): 1346—8. “http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 ” Comment in: Lancet 2001 Sep 29; 358(9287): 1104.

Birring SS , Brightling CE , Symon FA , Barlow SG , Wardlaw AJ , Pavord ID Idiopathic chronic cough: association with organ specific autoimmune disease and bronchoalveolar lymphocytosis. Thorax 2003; 58(12): 1066—70.

Haque RA , Usmani OS , Barnes PJ Chronic idiopathic cough: a discrete clinical entity? Chest 2005 May; 127(5): 1710—13.

Birring SS , Murphy AC , Scullion JE , Brightling CE , Browning M. , Pavord ID Idiopathic chronic cough and organ-specific autoimmune diseases: a case-control study. Respir Med 2004; 98: 242—6.

Morice AH , Geppetti P. Cough. 5: The type 1 vanilloid receptor: a sensory receptor for cough. Thorax 2004 Mar; 59(3): 257—8. Review.