“Cough in Children” New Perspectives

Abstract

Dr. Pablo Cortes Borrego

There are continually important changes in our understanding of respiratory diseases in children, in their physio pathogenesis, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, in their pharmacotherapy, etc. Paradoxically, a relatively new field of research is the interpretation of cough as a generator of important data to diagnose the disease that produces it. Perhaps there are 2 exceptions in relation to this: the coughing spells of whooping cough and those produced by laryngotracheitis, whose presentations are very characteristic and to the clinician they strongly suggest both diagnoses.

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