Young's syndrome
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Young's syndrome, also known as azoospermia sinopulmonary infections, sinusitis-infertility syndrome and Barry-Perkins-Young syndrome, is a rare condition that encompasses a combination of syndromes such as bronchiectasis, rhinosinusitis and reduced male fertility.[1][2][3] In individuals with this syndrome the functioning of the lungs is usually normal but the mucus is abnormally viscous. The reduced fertility ([obstructive [azoospermia]]) is due to functional obstruction of sperm transport down the genital tract at the epididymis, where the sperm is found in viscous, lipid-rich fluid.[3][4] The syndrome was named after Donald Young,[5] the urologist who first made observations of the clinical signs of the syndrome in 1972.[6]
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- ↑ "Young's syndrome. Obstructive azoospermia and chronic sinopulmonary infections".N. Engl. J. Med..January 1984;310(1)
- 3–9.doi:10.1056/NEJM198401053100102.PMID:6689737.
- ↑ Young syndrome at NIH's Office of Rare Diseases
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Young's syndrome - General Practice Notebook
- ↑ Definition: Young syndrome from Online Medical Dictionary
- ↑ "Obituary of Donald Herron Young".BMJ.January 2003;326(7382)
- 226.doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7382.226/g.PMC:1125087.Full text.
- ↑ Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) Young syndrome -279000
- "Young's syndrome. An association between male sterility and bronchiectasis".West. J. Med..June 1986;144(6)
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