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01-12-2020 | Dyspnea | Editorial
Is There (Will There Be) a Post-COVID-19 Chronic Cough?
Authors:
Peter V. Dicpinigaitis, MD, Brendan J. Canning, PhD
Published in:
Lung
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Issue 6/2020
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Excerpt
Cough is among the most common symptoms associated with an acute viral upper respiratory tract infection (URI; common cold). In the vast majority of afflicted persons, acute cough (defined as cough of less than 3 weeks’ duration) is transient and self-limited. However, in a subgroup of individuals recovering from a common cold syndrome, a dry, troublesome cough will persist as the sole residual symptom. Standard accepted terminology includes subacute cough as a cough lasting 3–8 weeks, and chronic cough greater than 8 weeks [
1]. Indeed, clinicians treating patients with chronic cough will regularly obtain a history that the onset of chronic cough was temporally associated with an acute viral URI [
2]. …
