ABSTRACT
Making the diagnosis of cystic brosis (CF) has lifelong implications and repercussions for the aected individual and their family. e diagnosis needs to be made accurately and as early as possible. A late diagnosis is oen preceded by a history of hospital visits, family anguish, anger and guilt, and a delay in the initiation of early treatment that may have an impact on long-term outcome. Equally disturbing is a small but increasing experience of the child or adult, diagnosed with CF, whom on review-oen years later-is found to have been misdiagnosed.1
