Chronic Bronchitis in General Practice

Antibiotics in acute bronchitis and exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: what is general practitioners' habit?

Bronchography in chronic bronchitis.

Bronchograms were made in eight men, chosen on clinical grounds as representative of three grades of severity in a series of 67 male bronchitis studied prospectively over a period of 10 years, with the object of ascertaining the anatomical condition at the end of this period. In the stationary group the bronchograms showed only a mild mucous reaction, and peripheral filling was generally good. ...

PRACTICE DIAGNOSIS IN GENERAL PRACTICE Chronic cough in adults

The diagnostic dilemma Chronic cough is somewhat arbitrarily defined as any cough with a duration of eight weeks. It is common in primary care. In one postal survey of 11 000 patients registered with four general practices, 14% of men and 10% of women reported coughing on more than half the days in the year. In practice, smokers rarely consult about their cough because they assume (usually corr...

Chronic fatigue syndrome in Army general practice.

Neutrophil function in chronic bronchitis.

This study was initiated with the question: Do defects in neutrophil functions predispose patients with chronic bronchitis to their recurrent bacterial infections? Forty five patients with chronic bronchitis and recurrent bacterial infections were studied. A number of aspects of neutrophil functions reflecting migratory and phagocytic functions and oxidative metabolism were measured in vitro, o...