Invasive diagnostic procedure for children with cystic fibrosis does not improve outcomes
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Compared to a standard diagnostic procedure, infants with cystic fibrosis who received treatment based on a diagnostic procedure involving obtaining and culturing fluid samples from the lungs did not have a lower prevalence of lung-damaging infection or structural lung injury at 5 years of age, according to a study in the July 13 issue of JAMA.