Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Pediatric patients who likely had primary ciliary dyskinesia more frequently also had asthma vs. patients without this condition, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Idrevloride in combination with hypertonic saline for 28 days resulted in better lung function vs. hypertonic saline alone in primary ciliary dyskinesia, according to a European Respiratory Society International Congress presentation.

On chest CTs, children with primary ciliary dyskinesia and inner dynein arm/microtubular disorganization defects had more mucus plugging than other defects, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

High sputum inflammatory concentrations in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia were linked to high structural lung injury percentages, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Six months of azithromycin maintenance therapy reduced the rate of respiratory exacerbations and pathogenic bacterial species in sputum among patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia, researchers reported at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.