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A Case of Unusual Visceral Heterotaxy Syndrome with Isolated Levocardia

Situs inversus of the abdominal organs in the presence of normally placed heart on the left side of the thorax is known as situs inversus with isolated levocardia. This rare condition is commonly associated with severe congenital defects of the heart. We report a case of situs inversus with levocard...

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Autores principales: Jo, Dae Sun, Jung, Sung Su, Joo, Chan Uhng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3831019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24255657
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2013.43.10.705
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description Situs inversus of the abdominal organs in the presence of normally placed heart on the left side of the thorax is known as situs inversus with isolated levocardia. This rare condition is commonly associated with severe congenital defects of the heart. We report a case of situs inversus with levocardia in a 19-year-old asymptomatic male patient with completely normal heart on the left chest. Spiral computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen and echocardiographic studies revealed situs inversus of abdominal organs, normal heart (levocardia), mirrored left lungs, a midline liver, a left-sided inferior vena cava connecting to the right atrium, multiple splenic masses in the abdominal right upper quadrant, and aneurysmal dilatation of a splenic artery.
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spelling pubmed-38310192013-11-19 A Case of Unusual Visceral Heterotaxy Syndrome with Isolated Levocardia Jo, Dae Sun Jung, Sung Su Joo, Chan Uhng Korean Circ J Case Report Situs inversus of the abdominal organs in the presence of normally placed heart on the left side of the thorax is known as situs inversus with isolated levocardia. This rare condition is commonly associated with severe congenital defects of the heart. We report a case of situs inversus with levocardia in a 19-year-old asymptomatic male patient with completely normal heart on the left chest. Spiral computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen and echocardiographic studies revealed situs inversus of abdominal organs, normal heart (levocardia), mirrored left lungs, a midline liver, a left-sided inferior vena cava connecting to the right atrium, multiple splenic masses in the abdominal right upper quadrant, and aneurysmal dilatation of a splenic artery. The Korean Society of Cardiology 2013-10 2013-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3831019/ /pubmed/24255657 http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2013.43.10.705 Text en Copyright © 2013 The Korean Society of Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3831019/
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