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[Cystic fibrosis in a woman aged seventy].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 1 Jan 2010
Ras Janneke E, van Velzen Edwin, van Berkhout Ferdinand Teding, van den Brand Joop J G
Abstract excerpt
A seventy-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with a Staphylococcus aureus respiratory tract infection. She had a history of extensive bronchiectasis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Cystic fibrosis (CF) was suspected and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene analysis showed F508del and R117H-7T mutations. In these mutations there is residual activity in the...
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