Immotile cilia syndrome in an aged dog

Killingsworth, C.R.; Slocombe, R.F.; Wilsman, N.J.

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 190(12): 1567-1571

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
PMID: 3610767
Document Number: 291904
An 11-year-old Dalmatian with chronic cough and exercise intolerance had arterial hypoxaemia, increased pulmonary resistance, and minimal elimination of barium sulphate by mucociliary clearance. A quarter of ciliary profiles were abnormal, the commonest abnormalities being deletions of various combinations of outer and inner dynein arms.

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