A Case of Kartagener's Syndrome in Infertile Male Patients

The patient was a 33-year-old man attending the infertility clinic with primary infertility of 3 years duration. The semen examination showed oligozoospermia and suspected primary male infertility. He had a history of chronic sinusitis and respiratory disease. His chest X-ray showed dextrocardia. Ab...

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Veröffentlicht in:Hinyokika kiyo. Acta urologica Japonica. - 1962. - 61(2015), 12 vom: 21. Dez., Seite 509-13
1. Verfasser: Mori, Kohei (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yumura, Yasushi, Takeshima, Teppei, Yamanaka, Hiroyuki, Kuroda, Shinnosuke, Sanjyo, Hiroyuki, Yasuda, Kengo, Noguchi, Kazumi
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:Japanese
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Hinyokika kiyo. Acta urologica Japonica
Schlagworte:Case Reports English Abstract Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:The patient was a 33-year-old man attending the infertility clinic with primary infertility of 3 years duration. The semen examination showed oligozoospermia and suspected primary male infertility. He had a history of chronic sinusitis and respiratory disease. His chest X-ray showed dextrocardia. Abnormality of the ultrastructure of the cilia of the tract epithelium was found by electron microscopy, and further examination revealed bronchoectasis. We gave him a diagnosis of Kartagener syndrome from these findings. Kartagener syndrome consists of bronchiectasis, sinusitis and situs inversus and is considered a form of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). PCD is also a cause of motor impairment of sperm flagella. This case had successful in-vitro fertilization pregnancy with spermatozoa from the patient
Beschreibung:Date Completed 01.04.2016
Date Revised 21.01.2016
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:0018-1994