Cystic Fibrosis
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2004
- Category
- General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552634813
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
In Cystic Fibrosis, Dr. Wayne Kepron offers a comprehensive look at this complex disease. Cystic Fibrosis is the most common incurable genetic disorder known to medicine, affecting approximately 3,000 individuals in Canada and 30,000 in the United States. Symptoms include bowel complaints and failure to thrive in infants, and breathing difficulties and unexplained coughing or episodes of pneumonia later in childhood.BIO:WAYNE KEPRON, MD, FRCPC, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. He has been a respirologist at Manitobas Health Sciences Centre/Respiratory Hospital for over 25 years.