Cystic fibrosis--a probable cause of Frédéric Chopin's suffering and death.

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Frédéric Chopin--a great Polish composer and pianist--suffered from a chronic disease. Both during his life and after death physicians disagreed on the subject of Chopin's diagnosis. His contemporaries accepted the diagnosis of a disease common in the 18th century--tuberculosis. Description of new clinical entities provoked new dilemmas in the 20th century. In our opinion the most tenable seems to be the...

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