Characterization of the ciliary beating efficiency in primary diffuse chronic rhinosinusitis

Rhinology. 2024 Dec 1;62(6):763-765. doi: 10.4193/Rhin24.101.

Abstract

Ciliary dysfunction may result in chronic airway inflammation and infection causing injury and structural changes to the airway epithelium, leading to a variety of diseases, like bronchiectasis and primary diffuse chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Currently, ciliary beating analysis has mainly been studied through the measure of the ciliary beating frequency (CBF) by high-speed digital video microscopy (HSDV). However, a normal CBF has been described in different forms of primary and acquired ciliary dyskinesia.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Cilia / pathology
  • Ciliary Motility Disorders / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Microscopy, Video
  • Mucociliary Clearance / physiology
  • Rhinitis* / physiopathology
  • Rhinosinusitis
  • Sinusitis* / physiopathology