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2001 FEB 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Maryclaire Lindgren, staff medical writer -- Infertile patients with a chronic cough now have hope - or at least an explanation - for their condition.
The culprit: primary ciliary dyskinesia.
P. Clamen, of Ottawa, Canada, and colleagues found that these patients should be treated with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
"Patients presenting with idiopathic infertility and an associated unexplained chronic cough should be referred for nasal biopsy with [electron microscopy] evaluation to rule out primary diary dyskinesia. Infertility in these cases, which is due to a functional tubal factor, is best treated with IVF-ET rather than superovulation and intrauterine insemination treatments," Clamen et al. asserted.
The researchers performed nasal mucosal biopsies on two women with unexplained infertility. They used electron microscopy (EM) ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Interesting Link Made to Chronic Cough.(primary ciliary dyskinesia...