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“CF asthma”: what is it and what do we do about it?

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I M Balfour-Lynn1,
J S Elborn2

¹Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London SW3 6NP, UK
²Regional Respiratory Centre, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast BT9 7AB, UK

Correspondence to:
Dr I M Balfour-Lynn, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK;
i.balfourlynn{at}ic.ac.uk

Abstract

The diagnosis of “CF asthma” is problematic and it is difficult to determine which patients have a combination of CF and asthma and which have asthma like symptoms caused by inflammation of the CF lung. This may not matter, however; the relevance lies in the possible approaches to treatment.

cystic fibrosis
asthma

https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax.57.8.742

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