Cystic fibrosis screening at the Greenville Hospital System.

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Cystic fibrosis screening at the Greenville Hospital System.

Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association (1975) - 1 Feb 2006

Dacus John, Mabie Bill, Gailey Thompson, Rogers Curtis, Likes Creighton, Metcalf Lindsay

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The cost effectiveness of prenatal screening for cystic fibrosis needs to be reexamined. This will require further study. At the time prenatal screening for CF carrier status was initiated, newborn screening for cystic fibrosis was not commonly available. The benefit of screening in our population was detection of 68 female carriers; however, this did not result in finding any fetuses affected with cystic...

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