Cough related to swallowing in asthma patients.

Background: Occurrence of cough during swallowing is common among asthma patients, but has not been investigated in detail.

Objective: We conducted an observational study to determine the prevalence of swallowing-related cough (SRC) and its characteristics in asthma patients.

Methods: Asthma patients attending our outpatient department between May 2005 and April 2007 were interviewed to investigate if they had ever experienced SRC, as well as postnasal drip or heartburn and cough related to these conditions.

A Fatal Case of Relapsing Pneumonia Caused by Legionella pneumophila in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis After Two Injections of Adalimumab.

We present a rare fatal case of relapsing pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis after only two injections of adalimumab. A 78-year-old Japanese woman with a 14-year history of rheumatoid arthritis was prescribed adalimumab because her disease activity remained high. However, 8 days after her second injection of adalimumab, she was admitted to our hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia caused by L.

Cough challenge tests involving mechanical stimulation of the cervical trachea in patients with cough as a leading symptom.

Background And Objective: Challenge tests involving chemical stimulation by inhalation of capsaicin or citric acid are currently used to assess cough sensitivity. We investigated the clinical usefulness of cough challenge tests based on mechanical stimulation.

Methods: A total of 347 patients (126 men and 221 women) were enrolled in the study, including 161 patients with asthma, 116 with cough-variant asthma, 27 with acute upper respiratory tract viral infections, 25 with acute bronchitis, four with pneumonia, three with chronic bronchitis and 11 with cough of unknown aetiology.

[A case of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis].

A 32-year-old Japanese woman who had been living in Arizona, United States since two years previously was admitted to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow. Her chest X-ray films revealed a small cavity in the right middle lung field which had not been identified two years ago. The chest CT showed that it was 15 mm in diameter and located in the right S6, and open lung biopsy was performed.