title: When to suspect primary ciliary dyskinesia in children.
abstract: Primary ciliary dyskinesia [PCD] is an uncommon, autosomal recessively inherited condition that is often overlooked and undertreated in childhood. Amidst the myriad of children with coloured nasal secretions, otitis media and a wet cough, there exists a subset with PCD as the underlying unifying diagnosis. In this paper we have highlighted the varying clinical manifestations of PCD, emphasising different presentations between neonates, toddlers, school aged children and adults.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: dominic.fitzgerald@health.nsw.gov.au.
authors.forename: Dominic A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Blvd - BRC.5016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4A 3J1.
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D057210:Delayed Diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007619:Kartagener Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia [PCD]; chronic wet cough.; neonatal respiratory distress; persistent rhinosinusitis; situs inversus