Title: THE VALUE OF SWEAT CHLORIDE TEST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS AMONG JORDANIAN CHILDREN
Abstract: Results: One hundred fifty-three out of 1565 patients (9.8%) were found to have sweat chloride ≥ 60 mmol/l, 132 (8.4%) had sweat chloride 45-59 mmol/l. The false positive rate was 3% on test repetition and the false negative rate was 3.4%. Thirty seven percent of our patients presented with failure to thrive, diarrhea and chronic chest infection, 26% presented with either failure to thrive or short stature and the rest of patients had a wide spectrum of clinical presentation. Conclusion: Sweat chloride test is a very good screening and diagnostic tool. There is a high percentage of patients with intermediate sweat chloride concentration where the diagnosis is equivocal and thus a genetic study to establish the diagnosis should be carried out.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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