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Clinical trials for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease are important to test and optimise new therapeutic interventions.
To examine the distribution of early structural lung changes in clinically stable infants and young children with cystic fibrosis using chest computed...
Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease commences early in the disease progression and is the most common cause of mortality.
Cross-sectional studies implicate neutrophilic inflammation and pulmonary infection as risk factors for early structural lung disease in infants and young...
Several lipid biomarkers of early cystic fibrosis lung disease were identified, which point toward potential disease monitoring and therapeutic approaches
Early viral infections were associated with greater neutrophilic inflammation and bacterial pathogens
Pulmonary inflammation in surveillance bronchoalveolar lavage has a cumulative effect on structural lung disease extent, more so than infection
These findings suggest the utility of specific FOT outcomes is dependent on the respiratory disease being assessed
These findings indicate that early CF lung disease is characterized by an increased mucus burden and inflammatory markers without infection or structural lung disease
A better understanding of the innate immune responses by CF airway epithelial cells is needed to identify why viral infections are more severe in CF