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Article: Studies conducted at Charles University on cystic fibrosis recently published.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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"Cystic fibrosis-related liver disease affects approximately one third of all patients with cystic fibrosis," scientists in Prague, Czech Republic report (see also Cystic Fibrosis).
"Initial signs of other liver diseases including the genetically determined disorders of the liver co-inherited with cystic fibrosis may be obscured by or ascribed to cystic fibrosis-related liver disease. We report a patient shown to suffer simultaneously from cystic fibrosis and hepatic Wilson disease," wrote R. Kotalova and colleagues, Charles University.
The researchers concluded: "Our case documents that in patients with cystic fibrosis presenting with liver disease, ...