Current and future treatments in primary ciliary dyskinesia

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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare genetic ciliopathy in which mucociliary clearance is disturbed by the abnormal motion of cilia or there is a severe reduction in the generation of multiple motile cilia. Lung damage ensues due to recurrent airway infections, sometimes even resulting in respiratory failure. So far, no causative treatment is available and treatment efforts are primarily aimed at improving mucociliary clearance and early treatment of bacterial airway infections. Treatment guidelines are largely based on cystic fibrosis (CF) guidelines, as few studies have been performed on PCD. In this review, we give a detailed overview of the clinical studies performed investigating PCD to date, including three trials and several case reports. In addition, we explore precision medicine approaches in PCD, including gene therapy, mRNA transcript and read-through therapy.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer9834
TidsskriftInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences
Vol/bind22
Udgave nummer18
ISSN1661-6596
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

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Funding Information:
Heymut Omran: Kim G. Nielsen and Eric Haarman are core members of the European Reference Network on rare lung diseases, ERN-LUNG, approved on 15 December 2016 by the European Commission?s Board of Member States. These authors are also national representatives participating in the European-Respiratory-Society-sponsored clinical research collaboration BEAT-PCD (BM1407, 2014?2019).

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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