chronic cough

La tosse che faceva... tic: quando il sintomo inganna il pediatra

Falcone M, Fioretto A, Fiorenza G, Esposito S

2026/2 — pag. 42-42 — DOI

Chronic paediatric cough may often have psychogenic origins when organic causes are excluded. This report describes the case of a 13-year-old boy with a persistent, metallic, diurnal cough that lasted for one year and was unresponsive to treatments f...

La bronchite eosinofila

Longo G, Badina L, Berti I, Maschio M, Amaddeo A.

2025/8 — pag. 489-498 — DOI

Eosinophilic bronchitis is a clinical entity characterized by bronchial eosinophilic inflammation that clinically manifests only with chronic, essentially dry cough. Just like asthma, it responds well to inhaled corticosteroid therapy, but it differs...

Un asma sine asma: la SIRT

Contorno S

2021/2 — pag. 57-57 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a girl with recurrent cough attributable to the so-called Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome (CHS). The cough was misdiagnosed as drug resistant asthma for long time. CHS should be considered in all cases where recurrent,...

Allergologia

P. Pascolo, A. Velkoski

2018/3 — pag. 189-191

La pediatria si è fermata a Idomeni

2016/3 — pag. 151

Bronchite batterica protratta dai casi clinici alla messa a fuoco di una entità poco conosciuta e “maltrattata”

C. Bibalo, C. Bibalo, M. Tubaro, A. Ventura, G. Longo

2015/9 — pag. 565-572

Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is a wet, “smoker-like” cough that persists more than 4 weeks (chronic, not remitting cough) and promptly responds to an appropriate antimicrobial treatment. Although it is the most common cause of chronic coug...

Un caso di tosse cronica e asma non controllato: non è tutto asma ciò che tossisce

A. Nucci, F. Tubili

2015/9

Un ragazzo che non mangia, tossisce e perde peso; con una spirometria da ostruzione senza ostruzione…

T. Guerrera, E. Biasotto, S. Vaccher

2012/8

Il bambino con tosse cronica e bronchiectasie: inquadramento e proposte terapeutiche

C. Braggion, U. Pradal, A. Delmarco, M. Carli

2003/6 — pag. 371-380

Little is known about the prevalence of bronchiectasis (BR) in paediatric age. However, outside the case of cystic fibrosis (CF), they seem to be rare. The BR can be localised or disseminated. For the former, the most common etiology is post-infect...

La tosse (o le tossi)

G. Longo, E. Barbi

2000/10 — pag. 631-635

Cough is a frequent symptom, ranging from the simple, irritatingly cough associated with the common cold to the catarrhal cough of sinusitis and to the prolonged afebrile non productive cough caused by intracellular pathogens such as Mycoplasma and...