RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 ERS School Course Cystic Fibrosis
JF Breathe
JO Breathe
FD European Respiratory Society
SP 321
OP 331
DO 10.1183/18106838.0104.321
VO 1
IS 4
A1 A. Bush
A1 S. Elborn
A1 I. Götz
YR 2005
UL http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/1/4/321.abstract
AB Educational aimsTo identify patients with advanced and rapidly progressive lung disease.To discuss how to best optimise standard therapies.To understand the different approaches appropriate to patients who have and have not decided that lung transplantation is an option.To detail innovative strategies which may be worth attempting if conventional means failure.Summary More than 90% of CF patients will eventually die of advanced lung disease, despite everything that has been attempted. This article will discuss strategies that can be adopted when a patient is doing badly.