Airway ciliary dysfunction and respiratory symptoms in patients with transposition of the great arteries.

Our prior work on congenital heart disease (CHD) with heterotaxy, a birth defect involving randomized left-right patterning, has shown an association of a high prevalence of airway ciliary dysfunction (CD; 18/43 or 42%) with increased respiratory symptoms. Furthermore, heterotaxy patients with cilia...

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Main Authors: Maliha Zahid, Abha Bais, Xin Tian, William Devine, Dong Ming Lee, Cyrus Yau, Daniel Sonnenberg, Lee Beerman, Omar Khalifa, Cecilia W Lo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5812576?pdf=render