Introduction The present study was to explore the correlation between cough variant asthma (CVA) and repeated episodes of mycoplasma pneumonia in children. Material methods Multiple databases were searched for relevant studies, articles that eventually satisfied inclusion criteria included. All meta-analyses conducted with Review Manager 5.2. To estimate quality each article, risk bias table pe...

Stress induced cardiomyopathy/Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TSO CMO) has been widely reported. It is characterized by apical hypokinesis or akinesis. Variants of this called as inverted/reverse cardiomyopathies have been reported and are characterized by basal hypokinesis/akinesis and hypercontractility of apex. These are more common in younger population. We present an elderly female who had a var...

Free-floating right atrial thrombi are rare but associated with high mortality. Although advances in echocardiography have improved diagnosis, their management is still the subject of debate. A 24-year-old woman with a history of smoking, obesity and oral contraceptive use presented to the emergency department with dyspnea, cough and hemoptysis. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large f...

intrathoracic gossypiboma, a retained surgical sponge in the thoracic cavity, is a rare but serious complication of thoracic surgeries. a 70-year-old man presented with an eight-month history of cough. he had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery eight years ago. the posteroanterior chest x-ray revealed a well-marginated homogeneous opacity at the left hemithorax with striped appearance in t...

background pertussis is a respiratory and contagious disease which is mostly caused by bordetella pertussis and b. parapertussis. it usually spreads from person to personduring the incubation or catarrhal phase of the disease. despite of large-scale vaccination, whooping cough is still an endemic disease with several outbreaks. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of...

background various attempts have been made to reduce the incidence of fentanyl-induced cough during anesthesia induction. we hypothesized that an appropriate dose of propofol might suppress fentanyl-induced cough. objectives a study had been designed to observe the effects of propofol on a fentanyl-induced cough during anesthesia induction. patients and methods we performed a randomized, double...