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Topics
- CF like disease
- Hello, What does this diagnosis mean for our child? (cough, bacterial colonization, pancreatic insufficiency) Friends told us that the genetic defect is not located on the usual gene but outside so that a mutation cannot be determined and thus the new therapy options cannot be ...
- 19.07.2015
- Intron 8 7t/7t Exon 13 D727y
- Dear Sir or Madam, My 10-year-old daughter (CF) was tested in 2009 because she often had abdominal pain with diarrhea and also respiratory infections and bronchitis. Our pediatrician sent us to the CF outpatient department of the University Hospital Leipzig [Germany]. A sweat test was done ...
- 07.07.2015
- Sweat test
- Dear expert team, Our 4-year-old daughter has recurring obstructive bronchitis since three years. We were in the children’s hospital twice for having a sweat test done. The values were on the borderline (41 and 51 Na). The test that was done in the outpatient department was negative (16 ...
- 16.06.2015
- Detection of CF at a later age
- Recently, a mother with CF stated that she did not know she had CF before she was pregnant. I was glad for her, but, on the other hand, I got worried. I have a child with CF (pancreatic symptoms) and other children, that have not been tested (the doctor told me to have them tested for carrying a CF ...
- 12.06.2015
- Normal sweat test
- I gave birth to twins, one of which was tested for CF with doubtful results. Afterwards we did a sweat test with normal result (32). The doctor advised us to repeat the sweat test before the age of six months. In the amniocentesis I did everything was normal. My husband was tested before we did ...
- 12.06.2015
- Wrong sweat test result because of pretzel?
- Hello, my 4-year-old son will have a sweat test next Monday because of the many bronchitis he has had. Today, he ate a pretzel and yesterday some salt sticks/pretzel sticks. Could this cause a wrong result? Furthermore, he inhales Flutide 125 µg twice per day, does this drug has any ...
- 06.05.2015
- CF
- I am a 15-year-old girl, and have had for 10 years unexplained abdominal complaints and since 4 years I often suffer from anxiety. I have a lot of mucus that I cannot cough up properly. Very occasionally I also lose some blood when I cough too hard. This blood is then mixed with mucus. Afterwards I ...
- 06.05.2015
- Sweat test 3 times borderline
- Hello, my son, 3-years-old, has had a sweat test for 3 times. Always in the borderline zone. Now a genetic investigation is done. The physician said, however, I should not get upset, this would not have any meaning, yet. Why can these tests be in the borderline zone and there is no illness ...
- 17.04.2015
- Really CF???
- Dear expert team, I am 30-years-old and suffer (allegedly) since my 17. birthday from therapy-resistant asthma. I have about two pneumonias every year without all the other infections. Now several times Pseudomonas has been detected and one speaks about a chronic colonization. Now I have been ...
- 17.04.2015
- Amniocentesis
- I am a carrier of the CF mutation N1303K, and more specifically of the heterozygote mutation N1303K (c.39C9, exon 21, Genctype IVS8 polyT:7T/9T). I have been checked for 46 common mutations (greek panel). I am 13 weeks pregnant. My husband will be checked, but we will have the results in one month. ...
- 06.04.2015