[Diagnostic usefulness of radioisotope study of nasal mucociliary transport in patients with recurrent respiratory infections].
Mucociliary transport system is thee most primitive and essential airway defense mechanisms. Primary ciliary dyskinesia syndrome (PCDS), an inherited recessive autosomal disease, produces an absence of mucociliary transport, therefore chronic upper and lower airways infections since birth. The study of nasal mucociliary transport by Seroalbumin-Tc99m method is very useful in the diagnosis of this syndrome. According to our experience, mucociliary stasis in a patient with chronic respiratory airways infections is a typical condition of PCDS. Normal nasal mucociliary transport velocity discards the PCDS.
Armengot Carceller
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Servicio de Otorrinolaringología. Hospital General Universitario de Valencia.
Ruiz Hernández
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Romero de Avila
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Cardá
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Basterra Alegría
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002925:Ciliary Motility Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009079:Mucociliary Clearance; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012008:Recurrence; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin
Utilidad diagnóstica del estudio del transporte mucociliar nasal con isótopos en pacientes con infecciones respiratorias recidivantes.