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E M Grabczak1, S Stec, M Dabrowska
1Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Allergy, University Clinical Centre, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. smstec@wp.pl.
Abstract:
The cough reflex is an airway defensive process that can be modulated by afferent inputs from organs located also out of the respiratory system. A bidirectional relationship between cough and heart dysfunctions are presented in the article, with the special insights into an arrhythmia-triggered cough. Albeit rare, cough induced by cardiac pathologies (mainly arrhythmias) seems to be an interesting and underestimated phenomenon. This condition is usually associated with the presence of abnormal heart rhythms and ceases with successful treatment of arrhythmia either by pharmacotherapy or by radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmogenic substrate. The two main hypotheses on cough-heart relationships - reflex and hemodynamic - are discussed in the review, including the authors' perspective based on the experiences with an arrhythmia-triggered cough.
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