Sentences with phrase «dyskinesia affects»

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Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited disorder characterized by recurrent infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract, reduced fertility in males and situs inversus, a transposition of internal organs resulting in a mirror image of the normal placement of the heart and lungs and sometimes other organs, in about 50 % of affected individuals (Kartagener syndrome).

Introduction: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), previously called immotile cilia syndrome (ICS), is a divers group of inherited structural and functional abnormalities affecting the cilia of the respiratory tract mucosa and other organs which results mainly in recurrent respiratory tract infections.