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Four case reports of Chinese cystic fibrosis patients and literature review.
Pediatric pulmonology - 1 Aug 2017
Xu Juan, Yin Yong, Zhang Lei, Zhang Jing, Yuan Shuhua, Zhang Hao
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AIM: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an extremely rare disease in Asians. Here, we report four Chinese children with CF and review the literature about Chinese CF patients. METHODS: The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene testing was performed on four suspected patients for CF screening. We also reviewed the literature about Chinese CF patients from 1970s. The clinical data of all these CF...
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