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- Published on: 19 November 2004
- Published on: 23 August 2004
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Dear Editor
We thank Professor Morice and his colleagues for their interest and for the issues raised vis-a-vis our manuscript.
The main issue raised concerns the possibility that we may have missed gastrooesophageal disorders such as reflux and dysmotility in our cohort of chronic cough patients. In our assessment protocol, we state that we used oesophageal pH measurements in most patients (32 out of 50)...
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None declared. - Published on: 23 August 2004Exhaled breath condensate in chronic coughShow More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the recent article by Niimi et al reporting low levels of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) pH in patients with chronic cough [1]. We and others have described low EBC pH in association with airway inflammation in allergic asthma, cystic fibrosis and COPD [2][3][4]. In these studies there is a relatively close association between inflammation and low pH which is shown by the furth...
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