Cystic fibrosis diagnosed in a nineteen-year-old case

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Cystic fibrosis is the most common autosomal recessive hereditary disease in white populations. It characterized by formation of abnormal secretions exocrine glands located sweat and salivary glands, tracheobronchial tree, large intestine, pancreas. The severity clinic depends on type "cystic transmembrane regulatory protein" gene mutation. Although cases are diagnosed infancy or childhood, some patients also during adolescence adulthood. We report a case 19-year-old patient who was followed up with diagnosis asthma bronchiectasis since childhood cystic fibrosis.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: The European Research Journal

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2149-3189']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18621/eurj.1207253