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| Surinder S BirringSummaryAffiliation: King's College Hospital Country: UK Publications
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Quality of life and psychosocial aspects of coughKate Brignall
Department of Respiratory Medicine, King s College Hospital, London, UK
Lung 186:S55-8. 2008..Recent cough guidelines endorse the measurement of cough-specific quality of life and these questionnaires are ideal tools to facilitate this...- Developing antitussives: the ideal clinical trialSurinder S Birring
Department of Respiratory Medicine, King s College Hospital, London, UK
Pulm Pharmacol Ther 22:155-8. 2009..Properly conducted clinical trials are an opportunity to evaluate the benefits of currently available therapies and aid advances in the antitussive drug market... - Improvement in health status following cough-suppression physiotherapy for patients with chronic coughAmit S Patel
Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, King s College London, UK
Chron Respir Dis 8:253-8. 2011..002) and sleep disturbance scores (p = 0.02). Our findings suggest cough-suppression physiotherapy may lead to a clinically significant improvement in cough-specific HRQOL in patients with chronic cough... - Improvement in health status following bronchopulmonary hygiene physical therapy in patients with bronchiectasisKugathasan Mutalithas
Institute for Lung Health, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
Respir Med 102:1140-4. 2008..001). Our findings suggest that bronchopulmonary hygiene physical therapy can lead to a significant improvement in cough-related quality of life... - Cough frequency, cough sensitivity and health status in patients with chronic coughSurinder S Birring
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Institute for Lung Health, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
Respir Med 100:1105-9. 2006..Little is known about the frequency of cough in health and in patients with chronic cough... - Cough and sleepKai K Lee
Department of Respiratory Medicine, King s College Hospital, London, SE5 9RS, UK
Lung 188:S91-4. 2010..Patients are likely to be female and report gastroesophageal reflux and rhinitis. Continuous positive airway pressure therapy is effective in alleviating cough. Greater awareness of this condition is needed... - The assessment of quality of life in acute cough with the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ-acute)Nadia Yousaf
King s College London, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, London, UK
Cough 7:4. 2011..abstract:.. - Clinical assessment of chronic cough severityAnita A Raj
Department of Respiratory Medicine, King s College Hospital, London SE5 9RS, UK
Pulm Pharmacol Ther 20:334-7. 2007..These tools can be used to validate the presence of cough and assess response to therapy. They will also have an important role in clinical trials... - The influence of age on induced sputum differential cell counts in normal subjectsRebecca A Thomas
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
Chest 126:1811-4. 2004..CONCLUSION: In our healthy volunteer population, the induced sputum differential neutrophil count increased significantly with age. These findings highlight the need for age matching in controlled studies... - Idiopathic chronic cough and organ-specific autoimmune diseases: a case-control studySurinder S Birring
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Institute for Lung Health, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
Respir Med 98:242-6. 2004..001). Organ-specific autoantibodies were present in a significantly higher proportion of cases than controls (40% vs. 13%; P = 0.047). These findings suggest a relationship between idiopathic chronic cough and organ-specific autoimmunity... - Eosinophilic bronchitis: clinical features, management and pathogenesisSurinder S Birring
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Institute for Lung Health, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
Am J Respir Med 2:169-73. 2003..Further study of this interesting condition will increase our understanding of airway inflammation and airway responsiveness, leading to novel targets for therapeutics for both eosinophilic bronchitis and asthma... - Chronic cough in patients with sleep-disordered breathingK K Y Chan
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, King s College Hospital, London, SE5 9RS, UK
Eur Respir J 35:368-72. 2010..Further studies are required to investigate the impact of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on cough associated with SDB to explore the mechanism of this association...