Patient
1
2
3
4*
5*
Clinical details
Gender
M
F
F
F
M
Age
23yrs
18yrs
39yrs
5yrs
9yrs
Sitis inversus
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ENT symptoms
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Respiratory distress at birth
No
No
No
No
No
Productive/ wet cough
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bronchiectasis
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recurrent chest infections
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Results
Nasal nitric oxide (ppb)
25
293
3
463
394
CBF (Hz)
12.6
8.5
0
11.5
8.9
Cilia beat pattern
Static or stiff, rapid incomplete beat
slow
Mainly static, some slow dyskinetic movement
Dyskineitic and rapid incomplete beat
Static, dyskinetic and co-ordinated beat
%IDA absent at TEM
42%
36%
78%
21%
33%
Immunofluorescence to DNALI1
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
*Patients’s 4 and 5 were siblings
Table 3:
Diagnostic test results for patients with consistent loss of IDA at review.