Cystic fibrosis-screening positive inconclusive diagnosis: Newborn screening and long-term follow-up permits to early identify patients with CFTR-related disorders

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Background: Newborn screening (NBS) early-identifies cystic fibrosis (CF), but in CF-screening positive inconclusive diagnosis (CF-SPID) the results of immunoreactive trypsinogen (IRT), molecular analysis and sweat test (ST) are discordant. A percentage of CF-SPID evolves to CF, but data on long-term monitoring are lacking. We describe the follow-up of all CF and CF-SPID identified between 2008 and 2019. Methods: NBS was performed by IRT followed by molecular analysis and ST between 2008 and 2014; double IRT followed by molecular analysis and ST after 2014. Results: NBS revealed 47 CF and 99 CF-SPID newborn, a ratio 1:2.1-the highest reported so far. This depends on the identification by gene sequencing of the second variant with undefined effect in 40 CF-SPID that otherwise would have been defined as carriers. Clinical complications and pulmonary infections occurred more frequently among CF patients than among CF-SPID. Two CF-SPID cases evolved to CF (at two years), while eight evolved to CFTR-related disorders (CFTR-RD), between one and eight years, with bronchiectasis (two), recurrent pneumonia (four, two with sinonasal complications), recurrent pancreatitis (two). No clinical, biochemical or imaging data predicted the evolution. Conclusion: Gene sequencing within the NBS reveals a higher number of CF-SPID and we first describe an approach to early identify CFTR-RD, with relevant impact on their outcome.

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Castaldo, A., Cimbalo, C., Castaldo, R. J., D’Antonio, M., Scorza, M., Salvadori, L., … Tosco, A. (2020). Cystic fibrosis-screening positive inconclusive diagnosis: Newborn screening and long-term follow-up permits to early identify patients with CFTR-related disorders. Diagnostics, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10080570

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