Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Identification of acid reflux cough using serial assays of exhaled breath condensate pH. | Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Identification of acid reflux cough using serial assays of exhaled breath condensate pH John Hunt 1 Yuanlin Yu1 James Burns2 Benjamin Gaston1 Lina Ngamtrakulpanit1 Dorothy Bunyan1 Brian K Walsh1 Alison Smith1 and Stephanie Hom1 Address 1Division of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Box 800386 University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia 22908 USA and 2Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation Massachusetts General Hospital One Bowdoin Square Boston MA 02114 USA Email John Hunt - jfh2m@ Yuanlin Yu - YY4D@ James Burns - JBurns0@ Benjamin Gaston - bmg3g@ Lina Ngamtrakulpanit - lina972@ Dorothy Bunyan - DAB2M@ Brian K Walsh - BKW2J@ Alison Smith - afs3z@ Stephanie Hom - SH3GD@ Corresponding author Published II April 2006 Received 14 December 2005 Cough2006 2 3 doi 1745-9974-2-3 Accepted 1 1 April 2006 This article is available from http content 2 1 3 2006Hunt et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Chronic cough is a common problem frequently caused or exacerbated by acid reflux. Diagnosis of acid reflux cough is haphazard currently often relying on long therapeutic trials of expensive medications. We tested the hypothesis that the most relevant mechanistic component of acid reflux in chronic cough is when it rises to the level of the airway where acid can potentially be aspirated. We further wished to determine if multi-sample exhaled breath condensate EBC pH profiles can identify chronic cough patients likely to respond to proton pump inhibitor therapy. Methods 59 subjects were recruited for this study. .
