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Structural Heart Issues in Dextrocardia: Situs Type Matters

Background: Patients who are diagnosed with dextrocardia, a rare congenital heart condition in which the heart points toward the right side of the chest, need their specific situs classification (eg, solitus, inversus, ambiguus) ascertained to optimize their care and outcomes. In this report, we dis...

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Autores principales: Fox, Charles J., Keflemariam, Yenabi, Cornett, Elyse M., Urman, Richard D., Rapoport, Yury, Shah, Bipin, Mancini, Mary C., Kaye, Alan D.
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Publicado: Academic Division of Ochsner Clinic Foundation 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828436
http://dx.doi.org/10.31486/toj.19.0119
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author Fox, Charles J.
Keflemariam, Yenabi
Cornett, Elyse M.
Urman, Richard D.
Rapoport, Yury
Shah, Bipin
Mancini, Mary C.
Kaye, Alan D.
author_facet Fox, Charles J.
Keflemariam, Yenabi
Cornett, Elyse M.
Urman, Richard D.
Rapoport, Yury
Shah, Bipin
Mancini, Mary C.
Kaye, Alan D.
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description Background: Patients who are diagnosed with dextrocardia, a rare congenital heart condition in which the heart points toward the right side of the chest, need their specific situs classification (eg, solitus, inversus, ambiguus) ascertained to optimize their care and outcomes. In this report, we discuss the perioperative anesthetic management of a patient presenting with dextrocardia. Case Report: A 44-year-old African American female with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and diabetes mellitus type 2 was admitted for shortness of breath, dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. The patient had been diagnosed with dextrocardia in 2003 at an outside hospital and was asymptomatic prior to this presentation. Chest x-ray revealed bilateral perihilar vascular congestion with bibasilar atelectasis and suspected small bilateral pleural effusions consistent with new-onset congestive heart failure. Preoperative 2-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography revealed an ostium secundum–type atrial septal defect (ASD) with mild left-to-right atrial shunting. The patient's ASD was repaired using a pericardial patch. Conclusion: The anesthetic management of patients presenting with dextrocardia is complex. Preoperative cardiac transthoracic echocardiography can identify cardiac lesions or aberrant anatomy associated with dextrocardia. Proper placement of electrocardiogram electrodes is necessary to avoid false-positive results for perioperative ischemia. Central line access must be adjusted to anatomic variations. Clinicians should have high suspicion for associated pulmonary hypertension and should limit sedatives preoperatively to minimize the cardiovascular effects of hypoxia and/or hypercarbia on the pulmonary vasculature. Finally, high clinical suspicion for respiratory complications should be maintained, as dextrocardia has been associated with respiratory complications secondary to primary ciliary dyskinesia in approximately 25% of patients.
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spelling pubmed-79934262021-04-06 Structural Heart Issues in Dextrocardia: Situs Type Matters Fox, Charles J. Keflemariam, Yenabi Cornett, Elyse M. Urman, Richard D. Rapoport, Yury Shah, Bipin Mancini, Mary C. Kaye, Alan D. Ochsner J Case Reports and Clinical Observations Background: Patients who are diagnosed with dextrocardia, a rare congenital heart condition in which the heart points toward the right side of the chest, need their specific situs classification (eg, solitus, inversus, ambiguus) ascertained to optimize their care and outcomes. In this report, we discuss the perioperative anesthetic management of a patient presenting with dextrocardia. Case Report: A 44-year-old African American female with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and diabetes mellitus type 2 was admitted for shortness of breath, dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. The patient had been diagnosed with dextrocardia in 2003 at an outside hospital and was asymptomatic prior to this presentation. Chest x-ray revealed bilateral perihilar vascular congestion with bibasilar atelectasis and suspected small bilateral pleural effusions consistent with new-onset congestive heart failure. Preoperative 2-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography revealed an ostium secundum–type atrial septal defect (ASD) with mild left-to-right atrial shunting. The patient's ASD was repaired using a pericardial patch. Conclusion: The anesthetic management of patients presenting with dextrocardia is complex. Preoperative cardiac transthoracic echocardiography can identify cardiac lesions or aberrant anatomy associated with dextrocardia. Proper placement of electrocardiogram electrodes is necessary to avoid false-positive results for perioperative ischemia. Central line access must be adjusted to anatomic variations. Clinicians should have high suspicion for associated pulmonary hypertension and should limit sedatives preoperatively to minimize the cardiovascular effects of hypoxia and/or hypercarbia on the pulmonary vasculature. Finally, high clinical suspicion for respiratory complications should be maintained, as dextrocardia has been associated with respiratory complications secondary to primary ciliary dyskinesia in approximately 25% of patients. Academic Division of Ochsner Clinic Foundation 2021 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7993426/ /pubmed/33828436 http://dx.doi.org/10.31486/toj.19.0119 Text en ©2021 by the author(s); Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode ©2021 by the author(s); licensee Ochsner Journal, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) that permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Keflemariam, Yenabi
Cornett, Elyse M.
Urman, Richard D.
Rapoport, Yury
Shah, Bipin
Mancini, Mary C.
Kaye, Alan D.
Structural Heart Issues in Dextrocardia: Situs Type Matters
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title_short Structural Heart Issues in Dextrocardia: Situs Type Matters
title_sort structural heart issues in dextrocardia: situs type matters
topic Case Reports and Clinical Observations
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828436
http://dx.doi.org/10.31486/toj.19.0119
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