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[Clinical and ultrastructural evaluation of nasal mucociliary function in HIV-positive patients. Preliminary
M Armengot1, B Climent, C Carda
1Servicio de ORL, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Nasal mucociliary transport was studied in 33 HIV-positive patients with different stages of infection. Ciliary ultrastructure was studied in 8 of these cases. At the time of study, 24 patients had respiratory infections. Disturbances in mucociliary transport were found in 25 cases. In 6 of the 8 studies of ciliary ultrastructure, changes in the ciliary axonema were found, particularly in the central and peripheral microtubules.