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Review
. 2021 May 4:9:649904.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.649904. eCollection 2021.

Sweat Testing and Recent Advances

Yasemin Gokdemir  1 , Bulent Taner Karadag  1
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Review

Sweat Testing and Recent Advances

Yasemin Gokdemir et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disease of the Caucasian population. Sweat testing is the principal diagnostic test for CF, and it is used for the evaluation of infants with positive CF newborn screening (NBS) and in patients with clinical findings suggesting CF. This article describes the classical sweat test method in detail and also provides an overwiew of recent advances.

Keywords: Gibson-Cooke; chloride; cystic fibrosis; diagnosis; sweat test.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Iontopheresis and sweat collection by Gibson-Cooke method.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Iontopheresis and sweat collection by Macroduct System.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Cystic fibrosis diagnostic algorithm. Adapted from Simmonds (12).
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