Article: Dead Sea can help CF patients, too

Article: Models Pinpoints CF Patients Most Likely To Benefit ...
Immunotherapy Weekly;  December 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... The retrospective study compared CF patients who received lung transplants ... 1997 with a control group of CF patients who did not undergo transplantation ... history of lung transplantation for CF patients," said Robert J. Beall, PhD ...

Article: Lung transplants fail to extend lives of most CF ...
Transplant News;  January 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... lives of the sickest cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, it does not improve survival in most ... classifying CF severity. Currently, CF patients are placed on lung transplant waiting ... researchers used the new model to classify 468 CF patients who had undergone lung transplantation ...

Article: Lung transplantation can be effective in CF ...
Transplant News;  March 16, 2001 ;     588 words ...Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients infected with Burholderia cepacia ... according to a retrospective review of CF patients treated through the Toronto (Canada ... transplant program. Fifty-three CF patients received lung transplants during ...

Article: Pancreatic Enzyme Supplementation in CF Patients ...
Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Reports;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Pancreatic Enzyme Supplementation in CF Patients Before and After Fibrosing Colonopathy ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY ... meal in those who did not develop the colonic strictures. CF patients who received relatively high doses of pancreatic enzyme ...

Article: Simple Sugar May Prevent Lung Infections in CF ...
Immunotherapy Weekly;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... eventually develop into the chronic infections that are the leading cause of death in CF patients. UI scientists have suggested that the natural defense system in CF patients is disrupted because a genetic defect results in an increase in the salt concentration ...

Article: Pandoraea apista can cause chronic lung infection in CF ...
Respiratory Therapeutics Week;  December 15, 2003 ;     573 words ... ... capable of causing chronic lung infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients." "It is most likely that this strain of P. apista was ... therefore be considered a new and sometimes important pathogen for CF patients," the researchers concluded. "Cohort isolation prevented ...

Article: New Technique Will Improve Delivery of Drugs, Gene Therapy for ...
Gene Therapy Weekly;  November 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... issue of Chest, could lead to improved drug treatments for CF patients (30,000 in the United States) and in the future, to a ... compared to the more coarse particles," says Laube. "When CF patients inhaled the fine particles at high flow rates, we found that ...