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CF diagnostics
My 3 and half old son suffer of often breathing infects and long lasting cough.Usually dry cough time to time moist cough. Is possible to have CF when he went through a neonatal screening on CF in 2010 and chlorid swap test two years ago?. Both with negative results.our doctor advices to do chlorid ...
24.03.2014
CF in blood work but no symptoms
About 12 years ago it was found that i had full blown CF according to my bloods but i've never had any symptoms - this was found as i was trying to do egg donation. I am now wondering if this is common or whether it is rare and somebody may be interested in it? Both my parents were then ...
24.03.2014
Again question about sweat test
Dear Doctor, I have reported a few days ago that my daughter had a pathological sweat test. You recommended a sweat test on both arms. Yesterday we have been at a CF center. A new test has been performed, however only at one arm. New value 25 mmol. Therefore normal. However, there I haven't ...
24.03.2014
Classification of the illness possible? What to do?
Hello, many thanks for your help in advance! Please tell me, how I have to react to the following conditions in order to find out, if I suffer from CF and what I can do in order to impede the development of further clinical symptoms: Age: 36, male, in the frame of a genetic investigation at a ...
28.02.2014
Sweat test borderline?
Hello, yesterday we have been with our daughter at a center spezialized in pulmonology, as asthma was suspected. However, as she has again and again vomited mucus in the mornings, they performed a sweat test. The value was 52 mval/l. The physician said, the value was normal, however our ...
28.02.2014
Few elastase in the stool
Hello, In my son (4 years old), very few elastase could be found in the stool and four sweat tests had already been done (in two different CF-centers), all positive. On the other hand, the genetic testing was negative. Can it be that he has "only" problems with the pancreas? The physicians ...
17.02.2014
ENAC
Hello, My question is complex. At the age of 22 months, my daughter has been diagnosed with CF because of gut and respiratory problems. The neonatal screening test at birth was negative (premature 33 gestaional weeks; 1.8kg) but, at diagnostic, the sweat test was highly positive (>200). Then, ...
10.02.2014
Atypical from of CF
Hello, I am 35 years old and in the frame of an genetic investigation it came out that I am a carrier of CF. When I was a baby, I had a strong pneumonia. I suffer from allergic asthma and have slight clubbing of the fingers. A recently performed sweat test had a result of 42 (control area). In ...
11.02.2014
CT of the lung appropriate?
Hello, I am 35 years old and in the frame of an genetic investigation it came out that I am a carrier of CF. When I was a baby, I had a strong pneumonia. I suffer from allergic asthma and have slight clubbing of the fingers. A recently performed sweat test had a result of 42 (control area). In ...
11.02.2014
ISET INSERM method
Hello I have contacted by phone the press service of INSERM [institue national de la santé et de la recherche médicale = French national institute for health and medical research] who planned, before the end of the year, the marketing of a diagnosis test. I have been told that: - this test ...
03.02.2014
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