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Interesting Link Made to Chronic Cough.(primary ciliary dyskinesia may be linked to female infertility)

Women's Health Weekly

| February 15, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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) ...

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