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Cureus
December 2024
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, IRQ.
Cough-induced rib fractures are rare conditions and are seldom reported in the medical literature. This case involves a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman who experienced a persistent dry cough lasting 16 days, which progressed to acute, localized chest pain in the right hemithorax. Symptoms started after an initial chest infection.
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September 2024
Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Japan.
A 56-year-old woman who received CD19 chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy for refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma developed severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and was treated with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir in April 2022. However, she experienced persistent fatigue and cough and fever in June. Computed tomography revealed bilateral ground-glass opacities (GGO), and the patient was treated with corticosteroids for organizing pneumonia after COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic cough is a cough lasting longer than 8 weeks in adults and 4 weeks in children. In the United States, more than 12.3 million individuals are estimated to have chronic cough.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
May 2024
Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Towson, MD, USA.
J Clin Med
June 2024
Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia.
Chronic cough in children is a common condition for which patients seek medical attention, and there are many etiologies. Of the various causes of chronic cough in children, protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is one of the commonest causes, and bronchiectasis is one of the most serious. Together, they lie on different ends of the spectrum of chronic wet cough in children.
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