Cystic fibrosis and emphysema are two different things. Cystic Fibrosis is a hereditary disease which affects the entire body and not only the lungs and respiration, like emphysema. Cystic fibrosis causes progressive disability whereas emphysema is not associated with disability until very close to death.Cystic fibrosis is the fibrosis and cyst formation owithin the pancreas.

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