CYSTIC-FIBROSIS - THERAPY AND SURVIVAL-DATA

The life expectancy of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) has increase d considerably during the last decades due to improved therapy; one th ird of German CF patients has now grown into adulthood. The present pa per describes the main therapeutic principles: oral antistaphylococcal treatment, therapy of chronic bronchopulmonary infection with Pseudom onas aeruginosa using intravenous, inhaled or - in adults - oral antib iotics, and improved regimens for the treatment of malnutrition. Final ly, survival data from different CF centres are presented.