Lung disease in AT

View from an expert

In this film, recorded at the AT Society’s Family Day in June 2012, Sharon McGrath Morrow of the A-T Clinic at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, gives an overview of pulmonary problems in AT and of the clinic’s approach to dealing with these.

Sharon was the principal author of an important paper on lung disease in AT published after an international symposium held on the issue in Baltimore in 2010:

 (McGrath-Morrow, et al. (2010 Sep). “Evaluation and management of pulmonary disease in ataxia-telangiectasia.”. Pediatric pulmonology 45 (9): 847–59).

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