Kartagener's syndrome with absence of inner dynein arms of respiratory cilia.
Morphologic abnormalities of spermatozoa and respiratory cilia at the electron microscopic level have been described in the immotile-cilia syndrome and chronic respiratory diseases. Most often there has been a total absence of the dynein arms. The current report describes absence of only the inner dynein arm in respiratory cilia from a patient with Kartagener's Syndrome, thus recording another variation in the abnormality of ciliary morphologic features believed to be recessive inherited.
D002648:Child; D002923:Cilia / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D007619:Kartagener Syndrome / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014132:Trachea / Q000648:ultrastructure*