Conditions / Syndrome

primary ciliary dyskinesia 34

info ยท Syndrome

A primary ciliary dyskinesia that is characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance with childhood onset of recurrent sinopulmonary infections and male infertility and has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the DNAJB13 gene on chromosome 11q13.

Signs and symptoms

  • Chronic rhinitis
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Male infertility
  • Decreased nasal nitric oxide
  • Reduced respiratory ciliary beating frequency
  • Immotile sperm
  • Recurrent sinusitis
  • Recurrent bronchitis
  • Absent central microtubular pair morphology of respiratory motile cilia
  • Neonatal respiratory distress

Also known as: CILD34; primary ciliary dyskinesia 34 without situs inversus