Kartagener's syndrome with absence of inner dynein arms of respiratory cilia.

Abstract

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.