Is sweat testing for cystic fibrosis feasible in patients with down syndrome?

BACKGROUND: Recurrent airway infections are common in patients with Down’s syndrome (DS). Hence, ruling out Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in these patients is often required. In the past, the value of sweat testing – the gold standard to diagnose CF – has been questioned in DS as false positive results have...

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Autores principales: Ruf, Katharina, Demerath, Antonia, Hebestreit, Helge, Kunzmann, Steffen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29338740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0580-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29338740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0580-1

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