[Gastrointestinal complications of adult patients with cystic fibrosis].

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal recessive disease in the Caucasian population. The primary cellular defect, the reduced expression of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), leading to a chloride secretory defect, is present in all epithelial cells of endodermal and mesodermal origin and has been described in sweat glands, the airway epithelium and the small intestine,...

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