Author: eCysticFibrosis Review

In this issue of eCysticfibrosis Review Dr. Ratjen discusses the challenges of P. aeruginosa eradication. He explains the importance to treat early and available treatment options. He also addresses whether treatment should be repeated in patients who develop recurrence of infection and how to handle patients failing eradication therapy.

In this podcast Dr. Patrick Flume, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, discusses pulmonary exacerbation. He provides patient case scenarios to understand the importance of pulmonary exacerbation and the ability to identify when it occurs.

In this issue our guest author is Dr. Patrick Sosnay, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Center. Dr. Sosnay will illustrate how the genetics of CF can be used to make a diagnosis or identify a CF carrier, predict how individuals with a given mutation will do clinically and allow clinicians to select currently available and hopefully future therapies that directly address the defect caused by their individual CFTR mutations.

In this podcast we have guest author Lori Stark, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Stark, discusses how to use “shaping” to encourage a child to eat a non-preferred food, describes the role of “attention” in maintaining behaviors incompatible with eating, and discusses the use of caloric goal-setting and dietary tracking applications to monitor treatment progress.

In this special edition of eCysticFibrosis Review, Dr. Peter Mogayzel discusses data findings from Dr. Steven Rowe results of the G551D observational study presented at the 27th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.