Search Results immotile cilia
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Kartagener's syndrome.
...of a more generalized condition known as immotile cilia syndrome. The incidence of immotile cilia syndrome is estimated to range from one in...persons. About 50 percent of patients with immotile cilia have situs inversus or Kartagener's syndrome...
July 1, 1991; American Family Physician
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Chronic sinusitis in children.
...children include obstruction of the sinus ostium secondary to upper respiratory tract infections, allergy, nasal polyps, immotile cilia syndrome, immunodeficiency syndromes and foreign bodies. The diagnostic criteria for chronic sinusitis and the most...
April 1, 1990; American Family Physician
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Newborns with respiratory disease may have rare hereditary disease
...the blood), especially those who have reversed internal organs or an affected sibling," said Ferkol. Also known as immotile cilia syndrome, ciliary aplasia or Kartagener Syndrome, PCD causes persistent wheezing and cough in children and is associated...
February 21, 2007; The Hindustan Times
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Illness motivated her to pursue pre-med
...team. Until last year she played three sports, but she had to quit due to a lifelong illness. Thornton was born with immotile cilia syndrome, a condition that prohibits the lung cilia from moving and making it difficult to breathe. One of her lungs...
June 4, 1995; The Boston Globe
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NEWBORNS WITH RESPIRATORY DISTRESS POTENTIALLY HAVE RARE GENETIC DISEASE
...about 1 in 15,000 children. Their findings appeared in the December issue of Seminars in Perinatology. Also known as immotile cilia syndrome, ciliary aplasia or Kartagener Syndrome, PCD causes persistent wheezing and cough in children and is associated...
February 8, 2007; US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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SINUS TISSUE CONCENTRATION OF MOXIFLOXACIN AFTER A SINGLE ORAL DOSE
...interval prolongation syndrome) that was subject to worsening with quinolone therapy.4,5 Patients with cystic fibrosis, immotile cilia syndrome, or known immunodeficiencies were excluded. In the immediate preoperative period, drug therapy for any underlying...
February 1, 2004; The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology
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Ciliary dyskinesia associated with hydrocephalus and mental retardation in a Jordanian family
...Hydrocephalus has been associated with ciliary abnormalities in animal models.19-24 In humans, hydrocephalus as a part of immotile cilia syndrome is uncommon and has been reported only in single case reports.25-29 To our knowledge, a large Jordanian family...
December 1, 2001; Mayo Clinic Proceedings
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The LF1 Gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Encodes a Novel Protein Required for Flagellar Length Control
...1998; reviewed by HIROKAWA 2000; WAGNER and YOST 2000). Other human diseases, such as primary ciliary dyskinesia (or immotile cilia syndrome) and polycystic kidney disease have been associated with defects in cilia or flagella (PAZOUR and ROSENBAUM...
April 1, 2005; Genetics
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Intranasal Fungi and Chronic Rhinosinusitis: What Is the Relationship?
...positive history of diabetes mellitus. immunosuppressive diseases, malignant diseases, immunosuppressive therapy, immotile cilia syndrome, cystic fibrosis, or acute upper airway disease. A detailed medical history was taken, and a routine olorhinolaryngological...
June 1, 2007; The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology
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