What is your approach to the management of symptomatic Cystic Fibrosis carriers?
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Pulmonology · Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
It depends on what symptomatic means. If they have symptoms of bronchiectasis, I treat them as bronchiectasis patients with airway clearance, antibiotics, hypertonic saline, etc.
If they have one mutation, I will also make sure they get full gene sequence and also do sweat testing (if available nasa...