Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I General issues
- Part II Head and neck
- Part III Thorax
- Part IV Abdomen
- 20 Abdominal surgery: general aspects
- 21 Abdominal wall defects
- 22 Inguinal and umbilical hernias
- 23 Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- 24 Small bowel disorders
- 25 Cystic fibrosis
- 26 Necrotizing enterocolitis
- 27 Inflammatory bowel disease in children
- 28 Intestinal failure
- 29 Appendicitis
- 30 Hirschsprung's disease
- 31 Anorectal malformations: experience with the posterior sagittal approach
- 32 Gastrointestinal motility disorders
- 33 The Malone antegrade continence enema (MACE) procedure
- 34 Splenectomy
- 35 Biliary atresia
- 36 Choledochal cyst
- 37 Biliary stone disease
- 38 Portal hypertension
- 39 Persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in infancy
- 40 Acute and chronic pancreatitis in children
- Part V Urology
- Part VI Oncology
- Part VII Transplantation
- Part VIII Trauma
- Part IX Miscellaneous
- Index
- Plate section
- References
25 - Cystic fibrosis
from Part IV - Abdomen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part I General issues
- Part II Head and neck
- Part III Thorax
- Part IV Abdomen
- 20 Abdominal surgery: general aspects
- 21 Abdominal wall defects
- 22 Inguinal and umbilical hernias
- 23 Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- 24 Small bowel disorders
- 25 Cystic fibrosis
- 26 Necrotizing enterocolitis
- 27 Inflammatory bowel disease in children
- 28 Intestinal failure
- 29 Appendicitis
- 30 Hirschsprung's disease
- 31 Anorectal malformations: experience with the posterior sagittal approach
- 32 Gastrointestinal motility disorders
- 33 The Malone antegrade continence enema (MACE) procedure
- 34 Splenectomy
- 35 Biliary atresia
- 36 Choledochal cyst
- 37 Biliary stone disease
- 38 Portal hypertension
- 39 Persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in infancy
- 40 Acute and chronic pancreatitis in children
- Part V Urology
- Part VI Oncology
- Part VII Transplantation
- Part VIII Trauma
- Part IX Miscellaneous
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
“Das Kind stirbt bald wieder, dessen Stirne beim Küssen salzig ist”
(The child will die soon, whose forehead tastes salty when kissed)
German children's songIntroduction
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common lethal inherited condition in Caucasians. In the 1960s patients rarely survived their first decade, succumbing to the effects of malnutrition and lung disease. At the end of the 1980s there were approximately 5000 patients with CF within the UK with an estimated 6000 by the year 2000. In practice, in 2002, almost 7000 patients had been registered on the UK Cystic Fibrosis database (personal communication). Similar changes have been observed in North America. Improvements to treatment over the last 40 years have led to a dramatic increase in life expectancy such that the median survival is now around 32 years. Further improvements in survival are expected for babies born in the past decade. The treatment of CF is, however, complex, time-consuming and intrusive to the sufferer's daily life. With advancing age, more complications of CF develop and a number of these require surgical intervention. Discovery of the abnormal gene responsible for CF in 1989 has resulted in a much greater understanding of this multisystem disease, as well as hope of a cure for the major cause of morbidity and mortality, lung disease.
Pathophysiology
CF is an autosomal recessive condition with an incidence of about 1 in 2500 live births in the UK and Canada and 1 in 3400 live births in the USA white population.
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- Pediatric Surgery and UrologyLong-Term Outcomes, pp. 315 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006