Reviews in Clinical Medicine (Dec 2018)

Cystic Fibrosis-associated Liver Disease: A Review Article

  • Hamid Reza Kianifar,
  • Yalda Rezaei,
  • Ali Khakshour,
  • Hassan Karami,
  • Maryam Khalesi,
  • Seyed Ali Jafari,
  • Mohammad Ali kiani,
  • Veda Vakili,
  • Seyed Ali Alamdaran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22038/rcm.2019.29624.1227
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 4
pp. 146 – 149

Abstract

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Cystic fibrosis-associated liver disease (CFLD) is an important aspect of cystic fibrosis (CF), which manifests with various signs and symptoms. Lack of specific examinations for CFLD have made the diagnostic process of the disease time-consuming, and the disease is often identified after severe progress. Finding the associations between the outcomes of various clinical, biochemical, and sonography examinations could help specialists identify the disease in a timely manner. This review study aimed to determine the correlations between the outcomes of various diagnostic approaches based on the current literature. According to the literature, some studies have reported correlations between various diagnostic approaches, while other studies have reported no associations in this regard. This discrepancy could be due to the various manifestations associated with CF.

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