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Cystic fibrosis liver disease - from diagnosis to risk factors.
Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie - 1 Jan 2014
Ciucă Ioana Mihaiela, Pop Liviu, Tămaş Liviu, Tăban Sorina
Abstract excerpt
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most frequent monogenic genetic disease, autosomal recessive transmitted, characterized by an impressive clinical polymorphism and appreciative fatal prospective. Liver disease is the second non-pulmonary cause of death in cystic fibrosis, which, with increasing life expectancy, became an important management problem. Predisposing factors like male gender, pancreatic insufficiency,...
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