{"id":565035,"date":"2026-09-27T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/?p=565035"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:53:02","slug":"recurrent-pneumonia-as-a-manifestation-of-cystic-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/recurrent-pneumonia-as-a-manifestation-of-cystic-fibrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurrent Pneumonia as a Manifestation of Cystic Fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mild or atypical CFTR genotypes may go undiagnosed in cystic fibrosis patients well into late adulthood. A 67-year-old woman had suffered from recurrent pneumonia since childhood; cystic fibrosis was not diagnosed until after decades of symptoms. This case report demonstrates that symptoms such as bronchiectasis, chronic productive cough, atypical pathogens, and gastrointestinal complaints should prompt CF testing even in older adults.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Frecurrent-pneumonia-as-a-manifestation-of-cystic-fibrosis%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mild or atypical CFTR genotypes may go undiagnosed in cystic fibrosis patients well into late adulthood. A 67-year-old woman had suffered from recurrent pneumonia since childhood; cystic fibrosis was not&#8230;&hellip;... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Frecurrent-pneumonia-as-a-manifestation-of-cystic-fibrosis%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":565037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"Case Study: Cystic Fibrosis in Adults","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"category":[11548,11508,11406,11455],"tags":[20880,15477,72137,13718,15480,12138,13947,100627,19764,15026],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-565035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rx-en","category-education","category-infectiology","category-pneumology","tag-bronchiectasis","tag-cf-en","tag-cftr-en","tag-cough","tag-cystic-fibrosis-en","tag-cystic-fibrosis","tag-diagnostics","tag-l206w","tag-life-expectancy","tag-pneumonia","pmpro-level-required","pmpro-level-1","pmpro-no-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-04 13:39:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":564686,"slug":"les-pneumonies-recidivantes-comme-manifestation-de-la-mucoviscidose","post_title":"Les pneumonies r\u00e9cidivantes comme manifestation de la mucoviscidose","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/les-pneumonies-recidivantes-comme-manifestation-de-la-mucoviscidose\/"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":565039,"slug":"le-polmoniti-ricorrenti-come-manifestazione-della-fibrosi-cistica","post_title":"Le polmoniti ricorrenti come manifestazione della fibrosi cistica","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/le-polmoniti-ricorrenti-come-manifestazione-della-fibrosi-cistica\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":564690,"slug":"pneumonias-recorrentes-como-manifestacao-da-fc","post_title":"Pneumonias recorrentes como manifesta\u00e7\u00e3o da FC","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/pneumonias-recorrentes-como-manifestacao-da-fc\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":565047,"slug":"las-neumonias-recurrentes-como-manifestacion-de-la-fibrosis-quistica","post_title":"Las neumon\u00edas recurrentes como manifestaci\u00f3n de la fibrosis qu\u00edstica","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/las-neumonias-recurrentes-como-manifestacion-de-la-fibrosis-quistica\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566922,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565035\/revisions\/566922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=565035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565035"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=565035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}