Ciliary Dyskinesia With Excessively Long Cilia

In a 12-year-old girl with obstructive lung disease, the offspring of first-cousin parents, Afzelius et al. (1985) found that the clinical characteristics of the immotile cilia syndrome (see 244400), including chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, bronchitis, severely decreased mucociliary clearance of the lungs, and nasal polyps, were associated with nasal cilia about twice normal in length but normal in cross-sectional dimension.