Patients with chronic cough refractory to medical treatment may have an underlying vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) that is amenable to speech pathology. According to a comparison of 51 patients with VCD and 39 patients with chronic cough from the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, the two conditions overlap. The cross-sectional study found cough frequency was ...
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Consider vocal cord dysfunction as a cause of chronic cough
By Mardi Chapman
12 May 2020