re immotile cilia syndrome in article mar ncsu edu andrea unity ncsu edu andrea m free kwiatkowski writes i would like to know if there is any new information out there about the subject or any new studies being conducted i am confident in my pediatrician and her communication with the people in chapel hill but since this is a life long disorder and genetically transferred i would like keep current i do realize that since this is a relatively new disorder first documented in in a fertility clinic in scandanavia and is therefore controversial i do not know a lot about this except from seeing one patient with kartagener s syndrome which is a form of immotile cilia syndrome in which there is situs inversus bronchiectasis and chronic infections situs inversus means that organs are on the wrong side of the body and can be complete or partial it is interesting medically because the normal location of organs is caused in part by the normal rotation associated with ciliary motion so that in absence of this laterality can be random people with situs inversus are quite popular at medical schools because of their rarity and the fact that most doctors get a bit upset when they can t find the patient s heart sounds because they re on the wrong side according to harrison s immotile cilia syndrom is an autosomal recessive which should imply that on average one child in four in a family would be affected but there may be much more current information on this and as usual in medicine we may be talking about more than one conditiion i would suggest that you ask your pediatrician about contacting a medical geneticics specialist of which there is probably one at ncsu km
