Sunday, 10 February 2008

Washington Post Medical Mystery: Chronic Cough Due to Fungal Pneumonia


The Washington Post on February 5, 2008 published a story of a woman who had a chronic cough that never seemed to respond to typical treatments. Only after undergoing a bronchoscopy test was diagnosis reached... a fungal infection of her lungs.

A chronic cough behooves a THOROUGH investigation of all possible causes and which unfortunately requires a multitude of tests before an explanation may be found.

Read more about chronic cough and the workup here.

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