Acute bronchitis: challenges of diagnosis and treatment

Abstract

Internal medicine specialists often have difficulty in making diagnosis and defining the type of treatment for patients with first time long-lasting cough or newly developed bronchial obstruction syndrome. Acute bronchitis (AB) is one of reasons of cough in patient who survived acute respiratory infection (ARI). The article aims to answer the question of what AB really is and what methods of diagnosis and treatment exist.

Keywords

• заболевания органов дыхания
• кашель
• острый бронхит
• бронходилататоры
• respiratory diseases
• cough
• acute bronchitis
• bronchodilator