Immotile cilia syndrome, due to excessively long cilia: A very rare disorder where the cilia fail to move adequately due to abnormally long cilia. The cilia are tiny, hair-like structures found in the respiratory and ear passages and help to clear debris and mucus. This results in increases risk of respiratory infections, sinusitis, ear infections and male infertility. The infertility results as the tails of sperm is basically cilia. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Immotile cilia syndrome, due to excessively long cilia is available below.
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Immotile cilia syndrome, due to excessively long cilia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Immotile cilia syndrome, due to excessively long cilia, or a subtype of Immotile cilia syndrome, due to excessively long cilia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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