Measurement of eNO with portable analyser might improve the management of persistent cough at primary care practice in Japan

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There are some controversial reports that investigated the usefulness of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) to predict the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in chronic cough patients. Therefore, we retrospectively analysed the usefulness of eNO measurement with portable analyser to predict the requirement of ICS therapy in persistent cough (defined as lasting for 3 weeks or more) patients in Japan and investigated whether it might improve the management of persistent cough at primary care practice.

METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of adult patients who had been referred to our hospital for persistent cough from 1 June 2009 to 30 April 2011.

RESULTS: Forty-two patients had the requirement of ICS (group S) and 35 patients had no requirement of ICS (group N). Forty-three per cent of the patients who required ICS had not received ICS, and 29% of the patients who did not required ICS had received ICS. In the steroid-naive patients without current smoking, mean eNO level was significantly higher in group S [60.6 ± 14.1 parts per billion (ppb) vs 22.2 ± 2.3 ppb, P = 0.001] and the sensitivity and the specificity of eNO for predicting the requirement of ICS were 78.6% and 80.0%, respectively. The rate of the patients who received inappropriate treatment about ICS tended to be reduced from 41% to 21% if the eNO was used to predict the requirement of ICS with cut-off value of eNO 26.5 ppb (P = 0.118).

CONCLUSION: Measurement of eNO could be one of the management tools for persistent cough at primary care practice.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

The clinical respiratory journal - 10(2016), 3 vom: 04. Mai, Seite 380-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Watanabe, Keisuke [VerfasserIn]
Shinkai, Masaharu [VerfasserIn]
Shinoda, Masahiro [VerfasserIn]
Hara, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Rubin, Bruce K [VerfasserIn]
Ishigatsubo, Yoshiaki [VerfasserIn]
Kaneko, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

31C4KY9ESH
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Cough
Exhaled nitric oxide
Inhaled corticosteroids
Journal Article
Nitric Oxide
Primary care practice

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Date Completed 13.02.2017

Date Revised 13.02.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/crj.12228

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM242706959