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    Testing for AAT Deficiency
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    Alpha One International Registry
    provides AAT Deficiency Testing. This AAT Deficiency Testing is a
    COMPLETE CONFIDENCIAL TESTING SERVICE
    and WITHOUT COST TO YOU.
    This testing will include measuring the CONCENTRATION of AAT in your blood, determining the TYPE of ATT in your blood and (where appropriate) determining your AAT genotype by testing the DNA in your blood; State of the art, full-spectrum Alpha-1 Testing .

    Please read the detail at: AAT Deficiency Detection Center
    Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, article by Paul Fairman, MD

    Dr. Paul Fairman is the Medical Director of the lung transplant program at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, VA. In 2002, he wrote the following article about Alpha 1 that goes to great lengths to give details about the disease and treatment. For the new patient, it is an excellent article to print out and take with you to your family doctor. Included are pictures of a diseased lung through regular xray and CT imaging.

    http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic108.htm


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