234 Cystic fibrosis: new trends in ophthalmological evaluation

Cystic Fibrosis and New Trends by Ophthalmological Evaluation: A Pilot Study

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by hypoxia that affects several organic tissues. Retinal ganglion cells may suffer from the hypoxic status, and this may lead to alterations of retinal nerve fiber. METHODS Twenty-two eyes in CF patients were analyzed. A complete ocular evaluation and visual field exams of the 30 central degrees were performed using the frequency doubling techn...

Evaluating Spirometric Trends in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

In this research, we applied both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methodologies to spirometric data from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). We developed an ensemble of neural networks to evaluate the severity of chronic CF within an individual, given the appropriate clinical input data, and a series of reference equations to describe the CF patient’s pulmonary function at differen...

Cystic fibrosis: future trends in care.

Cystic fibrosis: current trends in respiratory care.

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that typically produces malnutrition and chronic respiratory infections. Prolonged bronchial obstruction, infection, and inflammation result in bronchiectstasis and permanent lung damage. Most cystic fibrosis patients die because of this progressive respiratory disease. Thus, in the absence of a cure, effective respiratory therapy is the primary means to ext...

Maintaining Respiratory Health in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease that primarily affects the lungs and the digestive system, however, it also affects a number of other organs and systems. More than 90% of mortality of  CF patients is due to lung complications.  Healthy lungs are important for a long life for people with CF, We will discuss two important topics for maintaining respiratory health. Chronic use of drug...