Acronym of PCD

( Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia ) Syndrome ( Kartagener syndrome) or diss the Keynesian primary cilia compare (PCD) or syndrome the immobile form of the disease is an inherited Cilia compare lacks mobility.

clinical manifestations: the whole body are involved, for example, in the respiratory tract and sinuses, thereby increasing the likelihood of infection (pneumonia and sinusitis) and reducing the drain discharge. De middle ear cause otitis media and hearing loss. Defects in the fallopian tube, and sperm cause infertility. In these people the occasional organs on the front side is, for example, the heart on the right side or the liver on the left side.

causes: a disease is autosomal recessive. of course, the disease is extremely heterogeneous and is more than 250 proteins could be involved.

treatment: the disease exposed genetic is treatment likely is not effective and in fact have ill effects such as infertility and infection treatment.

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