The patient’s cough and sputum signal a pulmonary cause of dyspnea; the combination of fever, dyspnea, and purulent cough suggests ... therapy in this patient. Mucoid impactions (also known ...

Forty percent of the sputum-producing patients (5,541) had mucoid sputum, 40% (5,380) had mucopurulent, 18% (2,486) had purulent ... are actively encouraged to cough up sputum whenever possible ...

Results: A positive bacterial culture was obtained from 84% of patients sputum if it was purulent on presentation compared with only 38% if it was mucoid (p < 0.0001). When restudied in the stable ...

Causes can include having a lung infection such as pneumonia or whooping cough ... patients (5541) had mucoid sputum, 40% (5380) had mucopurulent, 18% (2486) had purulent, and 1% (177) had ...

January 9, 2012 — Purulent bronchitis is common among children with chronic wet cough, according to a retrospective study published online January 9, 2012, in Pediatrics. In addition ...