• Eur. Respir. J. · Jan 2017

    Practice Guideline

    European Respiratory Society guidelines for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia.

    • Jane S Lucas, Angelo Barbato, Samuel A Collins, Myrofora Goutaki, Laura Behan, Daan Caudri, Sharon Dell, Ernst Eber, Estelle Escudier, Robert A Hirst, Claire Hogg, Mark Jorissen, Philipp Latzin, Marie Legendre, Margaret W Leigh, Fabio Midulla, Kim G Nielsen, Heymut Omran, Jean-Francois Papon, Petr Pohunek, Beatrice Redfern, David Rigau, Bernhard Rindlisbacher, Francesca Santamaria, Amelia Shoemark, Deborah Snijders, Thomy Tonia, Andrea Titieni, Woolf T Walker, Claudius Werner, Andrew Bush, and Claudia E Kuehni.
    • Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK jlucas1@soton.ac.uk.
    • Eur. Respir. J. 2017 Jan 1; 49 (1).

    AbstractThe diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia is often confirmed with standard, albeit complex and expensive, tests. In many cases, however, the diagnosis remains difficult despite the array of sophisticated diagnostic tests. There is no "gold standard" reference test. Hence, a Task Force supported by the European Respiratory Society has developed this guideline to provide evidence-based recommendations on diagnostic testing, especially in light of new developments in such tests, and the need for robust diagnoses of patients who might enter randomised controlled trials of treatments. The guideline is based on pre-defined questions relevant for clinical care, a systematic review of the literature, and assessment of the evidence using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. It focuses on clinical presentation, nasal nitric oxide, analysis of ciliary beat frequency and pattern by high-speed video-microscopy analysis, transmission electron microscopy, genotyping and immunofluorescence. It then used a modified Delphi survey to develop an algorithm for the use of diagnostic tests to definitively confirm and exclude the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia; and to provide advice when the diagnosis was not conclusive. Finally, this guideline proposes a set of quality criteria for future research on the validity of diagnostic methods for primary ciliary dyskinesia.Copyright ©ERS 2017.

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