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Cystic fibrosis in Tuscany: evolution of newborn screening strategies over time to the present

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2021
Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening disease affecting about 1:3000 newborns in Caucasian populations. The introduction of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF NBS) has improved the clinical outcomes of individuals with CF through ...
Matteo Botti, Vito Terlizzi, Michela Francalanci, Daniela Dolce, Maria Chiara Cavicchi, Anna Silvia Neri, Valeria Galici, Gianfranco Mergni, Lucia Zavataro, Claudia Centrone, Filippo Festini, Giovanni Taccetti   +11 more
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Paraquat ingestion in an adult with cystic fibrosis (CF): Diagnostic and management dilemmas

Respirology Case Reports, 2023
N,N'‐dimethyl‐4,4'bipyridinium dichloride (Paraquat) is a potent herbicide used widely in agriculture. We report the effects of an ingestion of paraquat by a 28 year old male with cystic fibrosis and the diagnostic and management challenges this posed in
Ieuan E. S. Evans, Shanal Kumar, Megan France, Daniel Smith, Philip Masel, George Tay, Daniel Henderson, Scott C. Bell, David Reid   +8 more
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Efficacy of the Simeox^® Airway Clearance Technology in the Homecare Treatment of Children with Clinically Stable Cystic Fibrosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Children, 2023
Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients require regular airway clearance therapy (ACT). The aim of this study was to evaluate homecare therapeutic effects of a new ACT (Simeox®) added to the optimal standard of care, including home chest physiotherapy,
Dorota Sands, Katarzyna Walicka-Serzysko, Justyna Milczewska, Magdalena Postek, Natalia Jeneralska, Aleksandra Cichocka, Ewa Siedlecka, Urszula Borawska-Kowalczyk, Laurent Morin   +8 more
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Malignancies in patients with cystic fibrosis: a case series

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Previous reports have shown an increased number of colorectal cancers in patients with cystic fibrosis. We assessed the database of our cystic fibrosis center to identify patients with all kinds of cancer retrospectively. All patients visiting
Dorothea Appelt, Teresa Fuchs, Gratiana Steinkamp, Helmut Ellemunter   +3 more
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Clinical complications in children with false-negative results in cystic fibrosis newborn screening

Jornal de Pediatria, 2022
Objective: To present signs and symptoms and clinical course in cystic fibrosis patients with false-negative newborn screening (CF NBS). Materials and methods: All children presented in this paper were covered by CF NBS.
Katarzyna Zybert, Urszula Borawska-Kowalczyk, Lukasz Wozniacki, Malwina Dawidziuk, Mariusz Ołtarzewski, Dorota Sands   +5 more
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Not All Children with Cystic Fibrosis Have Abnormal Esophageal Neutralization during Chemical Clearance of Acid Reflux. [PDF]

, 2017
PurposeAcid neutralization during chemical clearance is significantly prolonged in children with cystic fibrosis, compared to symptomatic children without cystic fibrosis.
Di Lorenzo, Carlo, Hayes, Don, Jadcherla, Sudarshan R, Kaul, Ajay, Kopp, Benjamin T, Machado, Rodrigo Strehl, Moore-Clingenpeel, Melissa, Mousa, Hayat, Nemastil, Christopher J, Woodley, Frederick W   +9 more
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Cystic Fibrosis [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2017
Universal screening of newborn babies for cystic fibrosis was launched in Germany on 1 September 2016. Here we present up-to-date information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of this disease.This article is based on relevant publications retrieved by a selective search in PubMed, along with guidelines from Germany and abroad and systematic ...
Radtke, Thomas, Kriemler, Susi, Hebestreit, Helge   +2 more
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How do adults with cystic fibrosis cope following a diagnosis of diabetes? [PDF]

, 2008
The official published version of the article can be obtained from the link below.Aim. This paper is a report of a study examining the experience of adults with cystic fibrosis in adapting to the diagnosis of diabetes, a second chronic illness ...
Collins, S, Reynolds, F
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Cystic fibrosis in the year 2020: A disease with a new face

Acta paediatrica, 2020
The autosomal recessive disease cystic fibrosis (CF) was once untreatable and deadly in childhood, but now most patients survive to adulthood. Many countries have instituted CF newborn screening because early diagnosis improves outcome.
K. De Boeck
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Cystic fibrosis [PDF]

BMJ, 2007
As the Good Witch told Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz: it is always best to start at the beginning. Growing up, I always knew that I had cystic fibrosis, the same way I knew I had blue eyes and my cousins could all run faster than me. I was lucky enough—though my parents did not think so at the time—to be diagnosed at two days old.
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