Cardiology · Cardiology / Congenital heart disease
Kartagener syndrome
also: Primary ciliary dyskinesia with situs inversus
Primary ciliary dyskinesia with dextrocardia, sinusitis and bronchiectasis.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Congenital heart disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes, neonatal respiratory distress
- Gene(s) involved
- CCDC39, CCDC40, DNAH11, DNAH5, DNAI1, RSPH4A, RSPH9
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia with situs inversus
Etiology & mechanism
Defective ciliary motility.
Gene(s) involved (7)
Symptoms & signs (7)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
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2 shared
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bronchiectasis, chronic cough
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bronchiectasis, chronic cough
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bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis
1 shared
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1 shared
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Shares genes with
None.
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