Chronic Cough

Edited by Woo-Jung Song, Lorcan McGarvey, Peter S.P. Cho, Stuart B. Mazzone and Kian Fan Chung
Cough is one of the most common symptoms in medicine, yet chronic cough remains a challenging but under-recognised disorder. Long regarded merely as a symptom, it is now increasingly recognised as a disease in its own right. This ERS Monograph is the first to focus entirely on chronic cough. It brings together experts in the field to illuminate the journey from symptom-based to mechanism-based thinking, in order to highlight the remaining challenges in disease recognition, classification and management, and to outline strategies from improving patient care, thereby advancing the field.

Contents list
Disease overview
1. Chronic cough: nomenclature and classification
2. The epidemiology of chronic cough
3. The disease burden of chronic cough
4. Living with chronic cough: the patient perspective

Pathophysiology
5. Neural pathways for cough
6. Therapeutic strategies that target vagal C-fibre terminals for the treatment of chronic cough
7. Peripheral and central mechanisms of cough hypersensitivity
8. Airway mucosal mediation of chronic cough and cough hypersensitivity

Cough assessment
9. Clinical trial outcome measures in cough
10. How to measure cough hypersensitivity

Cough management
11. Current pharmacological therapies for chronic cough
12. Current nonpharmacological therapies for chronic cough
13. A practical guide to establishing a cough clinic

Treatable traits and the phenotype-based approach
14. Diagnostic approach to treatable traits in adults
15. Chronic cough as a primary disease
16. Chronic cough and asthma
17. Chronic cough and COPD
18. Chronic cough and interstitial lung disease
19. Chronic cough and bronchiectasis
20. Chronic cough and oesophageal disorders
21. Chronic cough and sinonasal disease
22. Chronic cough and infection
23. Chronic cough and neurological disorders
24. Approach to chronic cough in children

Future directions
25. Use of digital monitoring technologies to measure chronic cough: "cough-omics"
26. Recent developments in the antitussive area
27. Future directions for clinical research development in chronic cough

Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-196-2
eISBN: 978-1-84984-197-9
EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84984-198-6