Cystic Fibrosis: The Facts

by Ann Harris and Maurice Super

Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common genetic diseases, affecting the lungs, digestive system, and sweat glands, and beginning in early childhood. The first edition of this useful book was welcomed as a much-needed guide to cystic fibrosis by parents and relatives of people suffering from the disease. It describes the nature of cystic fibrosis, its treatment, and the special problems of patients and their families. This comprehensive and extensively updated second edition highlights the most recent advances in cystic fibrosis research. Since the recent isolation of the gene responsible for the disorder, medical understanding has greatly increased, and this new edition provides up-to-date insights for the wide readership concerned with this debilitating disease.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019262024X
• ISBN13: 9780192620248
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.8"