The main types of situs inversus are dextrocardia and levocardia: Dextrocardia with situs inversus: This type occurs when the tip (apex) of your heart points toward the right side of your chest. Your other organs are flipped too.

2024年11月29日 · Situs inversus is usually associated with dextrocardia (true mirror image) with only 3-5% incidence of congenital heart disease, most commonly transposition of the great vessels. Of these patients, 80% have a right-sided aortic arch.

Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare medical condition characterized by a complete mirror-image reversal of the normal positioning of the internal organs. Aristotle initially described situs inversus in animals, while Fabricius first characterized it in humans.

Dextrocardia with situs inversus: In this type, your heart is a “mirror image” but other organs are flipped too. This affects organs in your chest and belly (abdomen) like your lungs and liver. This type may cause symptoms, usually related to other problems.

2007年8月8日 · Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus, a rare condition that is present at birth, is transmitted by autosomal recessive genes. The primitive loop in the embryo moves into the reverse direction of its normal position during fetal development, causing displacement of organs.

In the most common situation, situs inversus totalis, it involves complete transposition (right to left reversal) of all of the viscera. The heart is not in its usual position in the left chest, but is on the right, a condition known as dextrocardia (lit. 'right-hearted').

In dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis, all the vital organs in the chest and abdomen are on the opposite side of the body from their normal location. The organs may work correctly, or there may be complications with breathing and other functions.

Chest radiography can aid in confirming the diagnosis of dextrocardia with situs inversus, in which case the cardiac apex and aortic arch will be located in the right side of the chest, with the gastric air bubble located in the right upper abdomen.

2022年9月19日 · In typical dextrocardia, the intracardiac anatomy is also reversed, called situs inversus (see Image. Situs Inversus, Magnetic Resonance Image). When dextrocardia is associated with a normal position of other thoracoabdominal structures, the condition is called situs solitus. [3] The exact etiology of dextrocardia is unknown.

We herein describe the technical details of successful PCI in 4 cases of dextrocardia with situs inversus. We retrospectively analysed 6 patients with dextrocardia out of 14,000 cardiac catheterisations performed in the last 15 years, from 2007-2021.