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Cause of CF
What is the cause of CF on a molecular level?
11.02.2010
Mild CF
I often read about mild forms of CF. But what is mild? Can you translate this in terms of life expectancy?
11.02.2010
genetics
Does the presence of F508del and N1303K mutations mean the severe course of the disease?
01.02.2010
Regarding cystic fibrosis
Hi, I am pregnant 27 weeks and just now mother-in-law saig me that her first-born daughter passed away at 7 month old owing to cystic fibrosis. If this disease is genetic and my mother-in-law and father-in-law are carrier hereof their son - my husband (he has twin brother) is carrier also. In my ...
25.01.2010
prenatal testing
When I was a pregnant mother of a 2-year-old CF child I underwent in Warsaw in a year 2000 prenatal testing, which revealed the presence of delF508 mutation (it was a sample of trophoblast) in one of the allels - carrier state. After birth the child underwent screening tests toward CF - the result ...
05.01.2010
Advice
I am in the 6th month of my second pregnancy and I just found out that my husband is a carrier of the CF gene. My first child has now shown any symptoms and I believe it is healthy. Should I be tested for CF, or should I let things run their course, since my pregnancy is advanced and my first child ...
05.01.2010
ΔF 508
Hello. After having an amniocentesis during my first pregnancy we discovered by chance that the fetus was a carrier of the DF508 CF mutation. We do not know which one of us is the carrier. I am pregnant now in my second child. My question is should we have testing for this mutation only, or for all ...
04.01.2010
CF
Is CF only a hereditary disease or you can also get t after a certain age?
29.12.2009
Gene test prior to a potential pregnancy
Hello. I am a CF patient. My wife is healthy. We are thinking thoroughly about having a child. Can my wife get tested prior to the pregnancy to see if she carries the CF gene? Where are such tests offered, who pays for it (my wife has statutory health insurance, I am with private insurance). How ...
29.12.2009
c.3121-2A
Hello, after 1.5 years of running from one doctor to the other finally a sweat test had been done and a CF had been diagnosed to our son. From the father came the Phel508del- and from the mother the c.3121-2A G> mutation. Is there any experience with this combination? Since we give Kreon to the ...
16.11.2009
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