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Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report
BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by chronic progressive multisystem involvement. AH1N1 virus infections caused classic influenza symptoms in the majority of cystic fibrosis patients while others experienced severe outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5623063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28964265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1430-0 |
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author | Iadevaia, Carlo Iacotucci, Paola Carnovale, Vincenzo Calabrese, Cecilia Rea, Gaetano Ferrara, Nicola Perrotta, Fabio Mazzarella, Gennaro Bianco, Andrea |
author_facet | Iadevaia, Carlo Iacotucci, Paola Carnovale, Vincenzo Calabrese, Cecilia Rea, Gaetano Ferrara, Nicola Perrotta, Fabio Mazzarella, Gennaro Bianco, Andrea |
author_sort | Iadevaia, Carlo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by chronic progressive multisystem involvement. AH1N1 virus infections caused classic influenza symptoms in the majority of cystic fibrosis patients while others experienced severe outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of late incidental cystic fibrosis diagnosis in a young Caucasian man suffering from respiratory failure following infection due to AH1N1 influenza virus. The patient was admitted to our department with fever, cough, and dyspnea at rest unresponsive to antibiotics CONCLUSIONS: Late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in uncommon. This report highlights the importance of early cystic fibrosis diagnosis to minimize risk of occurrence of potential life-threatening complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-56230632017-10-12 Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report Iadevaia, Carlo Iacotucci, Paola Carnovale, Vincenzo Calabrese, Cecilia Rea, Gaetano Ferrara, Nicola Perrotta, Fabio Mazzarella, Gennaro Bianco, Andrea J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by chronic progressive multisystem involvement. AH1N1 virus infections caused classic influenza symptoms in the majority of cystic fibrosis patients while others experienced severe outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of late incidental cystic fibrosis diagnosis in a young Caucasian man suffering from respiratory failure following infection due to AH1N1 influenza virus. The patient was admitted to our department with fever, cough, and dyspnea at rest unresponsive to antibiotics CONCLUSIONS: Late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in uncommon. This report highlights the importance of early cystic fibrosis diagnosis to minimize risk of occurrence of potential life-threatening complications. BioMed Central 2017-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5623063/ /pubmed/28964265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1430-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Iadevaia, Carlo Iacotucci, Paola Carnovale, Vincenzo Calabrese, Cecilia Rea, Gaetano Ferrara, Nicola Perrotta, Fabio Mazzarella, Gennaro Bianco, Andrea Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title | Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title_full | Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title_fullStr | Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title_short | Incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following AH1N1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
title_sort | incidental late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis following ah1n1 influenza virus pneumonia: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5623063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28964265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1430-0 |
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