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| http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cf/signs |
As we said the cystic fibrosis affect not only the lungs, as we can see on the picture it's affect lots of organs.
The signs and symptoms of cystic fibrosis (CF) vary from person to person and over time. Sometimes you'll have few symptoms. Other times, your symptoms may become more severe.
One of the first signs of CF that parents may notice is that their baby's skin tastes salty when kissed, or the baby doesn't pass stool when first born.
Most of the other signs and symptoms of CF happen later. They're related to how CF affects the respiratory, digestive, or reproductive systems of the body.
To diagnose and follow a patient we need to see what is appening in those organs that's why imaging is so important and why we will introduce it to you. The following image is a magnetic resonance imaging of lungs (MRI). MRI is often use to follow patient to see if the mucus density is too hight or not.
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| Source:https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article?id=156541&src=search MRI in cystic fibrosis. A 7-year-old girl in long-term treatment for cystic fibrosis at a pediatric pneumology center. a) Chest radiograph. b) MRI on the same day; the patient was sedated but free breathing. The T1-weighted contrast studies show clear bronchial wall thickening and varicose bronchiectasis, most pronounced in the upper lobes (arrows), and reduced signal apically compared to basally. |
