TY - JOUR ID - 40329 TI - Cystic Fibrosis Presenting with Severe Dehydration in an Otherwise Normal Infant JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - IJMS LA - en SN - 0253-0716 AU - Haghighat, M AU - Karamifar, H AD - Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Gastroenterology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz AD - Department of Endocrinology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz Y1 - 2001 PY - 2001 VL - 26 IS - 3-4 SP - 182 EP - 184 DO - N2 - A 4-month-old male infant was referred to our center with clinical signs and symptoms of severe dehydration without fever, diarrhea, vomiting, or respiratory symptoms. The patient had a history of two similar episodes at 1.5 and 2 months of age without any known underlying cause. In each attack the patient was hospitalized and improved with management of dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. The main abnormal laboratory findings on all admissions were: hypochloremic, hyponatremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. Sweat chloride was checked at all admissions, and was found to be highly abnormal at the last admission.  UR - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40329.html L1 - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40329_989ac166383fb34d52fd0e34eab9707a.pdf ER -