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    Optimising Inhaled Pharmacotherapy for Elderly Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Importance of Delivery Devices

    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is common in older people. Inhaled medications are the mainstay of pharmacological treatment of COPD, and are typically administered by handheld inhalers, such as p...

    Federico Lavorini, Claudia Mannini, Elisa Chellini, Giovanni A. Fontana in Drugs & Aging (2016)

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    A crossover randomized comparative study of zofenopril and ramipril on cough reflex and airway inflammation in healthy volunteers

    Persistent dry cough is a well known unwanted effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme inhibitors (ACE-i). Animal studies have shown that the ACE-i zofenopril has a less tussigenic effect compared to the widely...

    Federico Lavorini, Elisa Chellini, Margherita Innocenti, Giacomo Campi in Cough (2014)

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    Cough variant asthma and atopic cough

    Chronic cough has been reported to be the fifth most common complaint seen by primary care physicians in the world, the third in Italy. Chronic cough in non-smoking, non-treated with ACE-inhibitor adults with ...

    Chiara Magni, Elisa Chellini, Alessandro Zanasi in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine (2010)