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Severe disease in Cystic Fibrosis and fecal calprotectin levels.
Immunobiology - 1 Mar 2017
Parisi Giuseppe Fabio, Papale Maria, Rotolo Novella, Aloisio Donatella, Tardino Lucia, Scuderi Maria Grazia, Di Benedetto Vincenzo, Nenna Raffaella, Midulla Fabio, Leonardi Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
Fecal calprotectin (FC) is used to asses the presence of intestinal inflammation also in patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and recent studies showed a correlation between bowel and lung disease in these patients. The aim of this study was to analyze the levels of FC in CF and correlate them with different phenotypes of disease. We enrolled a cohort of 54 CF patients and 50 healthy controls. In these patients,...
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