Abstract

RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, Olga María; SANCHEN CASAS, Alexis  and  RAMIREZ CAMPINS, Amalia. Cystic fibrosis: a case report. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.2, pp. 370-375. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: cystic fibrosis is a congenital and hereditary disease whose clinical manifestations at the respiratory and digestive system level take the patient to a progressive malnutrition. Clinical case: a white, masculine, tree year-old patient is presented, with humid cough, phlegmatic vomiting, and personal pathological antecedents of cystic fibrosis. To the physical examination in the emergency ward, vesicular murmur lightly decreased and noises transmitted by secretions were verified. Mild dehydration and no increase in weight was detected, who was admitted in the service of respiratory via at the University Pediatric Hospital Eduardo Agramonte Piña of Camagüey city. An x-rays of thorax was carried out to him, which demonstrated marked reinforcement of the pulmonary weave with microatelectasia and/or bilateral bronchopneumonic infiltrate. To the patient through a Levin tube a specimen of gastric contents for culture was took, and grew Pseudomona aeruginosa of mucoid variety, sensitive to amikacin, ciprofloxacin and gentamycin. The patient was treated with amikacin, cefotaxime; vitamins and aerosols, he was recovered and discharged from hospital after seven days of hospital stay, with definitive diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in relapse.

Keywords : CYSTIC FIBROSIS [diagnosis]; GENETIC DISEASES; INBORN; CHILD; CASE STUDIES.

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