What is cystic fibrosis?

What is cystic fibrosis? 
Cystic fibrosis (CF), also known as cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis or cystic fibrosis is a common genetic diseases. This disease will affect the patient's body, resulting in a gradual movement difficulties, and premature death. The most common symptom is difficulty breathing because of long-term repeated lung infections caused by other possible symptoms include sinusitis, dysplasia, diarrhea and infertility.

Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease that occurs most frequently among the European or Jews, for every 25 people of European descent will have a carriers, which this disease is very common in Europe and the United States. Prenatal extract amniotic fluid for genetic analysis or sweat to check in early childhood can easily diagnosis the disease. Although the diagnosis is simple, but this disease is not yet curable therapy or drugs, the majority of patients with lung failure leading to death in two, the age of thirty because the only way to delay only lung transplant. One year after the transplant survival rate is 80%, five-year survival is 55%.

Cystic fibrosis cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ( Cystic fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, CFTR) of the mutation caused the gene responsible for making sweat, digestive juices and a variety of mucus. Most normal people have a normal gene, but in fact only need one of which is normal enough, when this is not normal when the two genes in the gene occurs in cystic fibrosis This is because this disease is caused by recessive inheritance.