Impact of chest computed tomography scan on the management of patients with chronic cough

Mathilde Descazeaux; Danièle Brouquières; Alain Didier; Marianne Lescouzères; Marie-Françoise Napoléon; Roger Escamilla; Laurent Guilleminault

doi:10.1183/23120541.00222-2021

Impact of chest computed tomography scan on the management of patients with chronic cough

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Aug 31;7(3):00222-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00222-2021. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Mathilde Descazeaux¹, Danièle Brouquières¹, Alain Didier^{1

2}, Marianne Lescouzères¹, Marie-Françoise Napoléon³, Roger Escamilla¹, Laurent Guilleminault^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Centre of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
² Toulouse Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (Infinity), Inserm U1291, University of Toulouse, CNRS U5282, Toulouse, France.
³ Clinique Rive Gauche, Toulouse, France.

Abstract

A quarter of chronic cough (CC) patients have an abnormal chest CT scan but the effect of this on CC management is limited. Chest CT scan should not be routinely performed in CC, particularly in patients with dry cough. https://bit.ly/3Bl3EeE.