“…PCD is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and has the so-called Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome, situs inversus, recurrent middle ear infections, chronic cough and chronic sinusitis as leading clinical symptoms. Bronchiectasis develops in childhood and, together with chronic bronchitis, leads the disease course [151]. Due to the now more than 40 known mutations, various defects in the ultrastructure of the cilia arise, which lead to different changes in the function of the cilia [152].…”