<原著>一家系内に多発した気管支拡張症について

Abstract

A family is reported in which 4 cases of bronchiectasis were found in two generations with direct transmission of the condition between parents and children. There occured 5 additional cases with expectration of blood in four generations of the same family. Expectration of blood which was common symptom in these 9 cases appeared at adult age, and the onset of symptom was not related to respiratory infections. The marriage was not consanguinous. An unusual familial occurence of bronchiectasis reported here supports the standpoint advanced by Kartagener and others that hereditary predisposition may be a determining factor in certain cases of bronchiectasis.