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Article: Pediatric Pulmonary Expert Comments on Study of Lung Transplants for Cystic Fibrosis
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 21, 2007
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Rachel Salis-Silverman of The Childrens Hospital of
Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6063, Salis@email.chop.edu
PHILADELPHIA,Nov. 21/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Commenting on a
study of lung transplantation for children with cystic fibrosis, a
leading pediatric pulmonologist calls the study startling in an
editorial in this weeks New England Journal of Medicinethat
accompanies the study.
Julian Allen, M.D., who holds the Robert Gerard Morse Endowed
Chair in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at The Childrens Hospital of
Philadelphia, analyzed the study by a University of Utah research
team, which found that cystic fibrosis (CF) patients younger than
age 18 did not survive ...