PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF CYSTIC-FIBROSIS

As a result of better control and improved symptomatic lung therapy, more than half of cystic fibrosis patients reach the age of twenty. With increasing age and progression of lung disease complications become more frequent. The pulmonologist treating the adult patients must therefore be aware of them and treat them adequately. The present study discusses the diagnosis and therapy of (i.e. bronchial hyperractivity, mucoid impaction, pneumothorax, lung bleeding and, finally, pulmonary hypertension).