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Review

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Maimoona A Zariwala  1 , Katherine A Despotes  2 , Stephanie D Davis  3
Margaret P Adam, Jerry Feldman, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
, editors.
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].
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Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Maimoona A Zariwala et al.
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Excerpt

The purpose of this overview is to:

  1. 1

    Briefly describe the clinical characteristics of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD);

  2. 2

    Review the genetic causes of PCD;

  3. 3

    Review the differential diagnosis of PCD with a focus on genetic conditions;

  4. 4

    Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of PCD in a proband (when possible);

  5. 5

    Review management of PCD;

  6. 6

    Inform genetic counseling of family members of an individual with PCD.

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