Immotile cilia syndrome. Diagnostic and therapeutic approach of a rare infertility case [Síndrome dos cílios imóveis. Abordagem diagnóstica e terapêutica de um caso raro de infertilidade]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2006

Authors

Pereira, M (Author) Other; Ferraz, L (Author) Other; Nuno De Magalhaes Oliveira, V (Author) Other; sousa, m (Author) ICBAS; Figueiredo, H (Author) Other; Costa, L (Author) Other; Amaral, J (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Revista Internacional de Andrologia

Vol. 4

Pages: 35-38

ISSN: 1698-031X

Publisher: Asociacion Espanola de Andrologia

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Authenticus ID: P-007-JA0

DOI: 10.1016/s1698-031x(06)73565-8

Abstract (EN): Immotile Cilia Syndrome is a rare cause of infertility, where sperm motility is reduced or absent. Patients with this affection usually have a long history of chronic respiratory tract infections. The explanation for this is the lack of dynein arms of the axonem in the tail of the spermatozoa and in cilia present in respiratory epithelium. About 50% of these patients have also situs inversus, a disease known as Kartagener's Syndrome. Electronic microscopy of spermatozoa makes the diagnosis. In conclusion, electronic microscopy should be considered in the evaluation of infertile patients in witch the spermogram reveals very low motility or none. The medically assisted reproduction techniques, with IVF and ICSI, give us today the possibility to help successfully these infertile couples. The authors present a clinical case of this rare pathology.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific