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Persistent Lung Disease in Adults with NKX2.1 Mutation and Familial Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 1 Aug 2016
Nevel Rebekah J, Garnett Errine T, Worrell John A, Morton Ronald L, Nogee Lawrence M, Blackwell Timothy S, Young Lisa R
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy (NEHI) is a diffuse lung disease that presents in infancy and improves during childhood. Long-term outcomes have not previously been described. In one familial cohort, we have reported that NEHI is associated with a heterozygous variant of NKX2.1/TTF1. OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to determine whether pulmonary abnormalities persist in adults with NEHI, to...
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