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Article: Minority Of Cystic Fibrosis Patients Benefit From Surgery.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- December 19, 2001
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2001 DEC 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Most cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who receive lung transplants either gain no benefit from the surgery or would live longer if they kept their own, diseased lungs, according to a new study by University of Utah researchers.
The findings, published in the December 5, 2001, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, indicate the criterion most often used to pick transplant candidates fails to identify those cystic fibrosis patients who would benefit most from receiving new lungs. The researchers propose a more complex set of nine criteria, which they contend not only would identify cystic fibrosis patients ...