Current situation of pediatric cystic fibrosis-related liver disease: results of a Spanish nationwide study.

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Etna Masip Simó

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Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Vicente-Santamaría S
• Tabares-González A
• Gascón-Galindo C
• Tutau-Gómez C
• Álvarez-Beltrán M
• Muñoz-Codoceo RA
• Rubio-Murillo M
• De-Los-Santos M
• Salcedo-Lobato E
• García-Romero R
• Fernández-Lorenzo AE
• Moreno-Álvarez A
• Serrano-Nieto J
• Hierro-Llanillo L
• Loverdos-Eseverri I
• Crehuá-Gaudiza E
• Juste-Ruiz M
• Blitz-Castro E
• Morales-Tirado A
• López-Cárdenes CM
• Bousoño-García C
• González-Jiménez D
• Cystic Fibrosis working group from Spanish Society of Gastroenterology, Hepatol

Grupos

• Enfermedad celíaca e Inmunopatología digestiva

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis-related liver disease (CFRLD) is a health problem that can affect as many as 30-40% of cystic fibrosis patients by the age of 12 years. We studied the epidemiology of CFRLD thanks to the first exclusively pediatric CFRLD patient registry to date. METHODS: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Information from medical records from January 2018 to December 2020 is collected. CFRLD was classified according to the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2017 criteria. RESULTS: Data were collected from 168 pediatric patients diagnosed with CFRLD (90.5% liver involvement without cirrhosis and 8.5% multinodular cirrhosis). CONCLUSION: In this national registry, including exclusively pediatric population, liver disease is diagnosed around 7 years of age. Liver involvement without cirrhosis is the most frequent finding among our patients but about 9% of the patients already had cirrhosis. CFRLD is one of the challenges faced by pediatric gastroenterologists in the future and national registries give us the opportunity to further study and broaden our knowledge.

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Keywords

• cystic fibrosis; cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor dysfunction; cystic fibrosis-related liver disease; ultrasound