Kolberg: Medfödd cilieorörlighet - en genomgång av ett norrländskt barn- och ungdomsmaterial. Afzelius: A human syndrome caused by immotile cilia. Beiträge zum Klinik der Tuberculose, 1935, 87: 489. Situs viscerum inversus und polyposis nasi in einem Falle familiärer Bronkiektasen. Horlacher: Zur Pathogenese der Bronkiektasien. Zivert published it in national weekly medical paper (Russkiy Vrach The Russian. Zivert as describing the congenital anomaly named. Indeed, the 150th anniversary of the Faculty of the Kiev Medical Institute lists proudly Assistant Prof. Beiträge zum Klinik der Tuberkulose, 1933, 84: 73. Translation of the name Siewert from German to Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet and back to English seems to have produced confusion in the spelling of the name, such as Zivat or Zivert. Familiäres Vorkommen von Bronchiektasien. Kartagener: Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus. Zivert: Über einen Fall von Bronchiectasie bei einem Patienten mit situs inversus viscerum. Kartagener reported a group of cases in 1933. also observed at Barrow, Alaska, in June and September, when surface temperature was close to 0C (Stone, 1997). It was first described by the Ukrainian physician A. The condition has been observed to occur in siblings and in identical twins. Zivert11 in 1904, while Kartagener published his first report on the subject in 1933.This disease is genetically inherited. In 1912 Zivert became Privatdozent (Adjunct Associate Professor). He worked as an Assistant Professor in the imperial Saint Vladimir University of Kiev, also being a practitioner in the local K.E. Autosomal recessive inheritance with incomplete penetrance. Erich’s brother, Alfons-Ferdinand Julius Zivert choose a medical career. Ninety percent of cases were observed before the age of 15 years.

In most instances symptoms date back to childhood. Palpitation, otitis media, nasal speech, conductive hearing loss.

Symptoms and sign are dyspnoea, productive cough, recurrent respiratory infections, colds, bouts of pneumonia, rheumatoid arthritis, renal abnormalities, turricephaly, heart defects, malformations of renal vessels, anomalous subclavian artery, dextrocardia, and other abnormalities. Hereditary syndrome comprising triad of: situs inversus (transposition) of the viscera, abnormal frontal sinuses producing sinusitis and bronchiectasis, and immobility of the cilia.

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