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Anticholinergic agents play an adjunctive role in the treatment of allergic respiratory diseases. Their formal indication in lung disease is for emphysema. However, they are useful in some asthmatics. In upper airway disease they are very effective agents to treat anterior rhinorrhea of the common cold or due to allergic or nonallergic rhinitis.
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Rodriguez, J.L. (2007). Anticholinergic Agents in Respiratory Diseases. In: Lieberman, P., Anderson, J.A. (eds) Allergic Diseases. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-382-0_22
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