Boomerang-shaped heart in isolated dextroversion

Boomerang-shaped heart in isolated dextroversion.

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Boomerang shaped aggregates from a histidine surfactant

The syndrome of dextroversion of the heart.

On the basis of 3 personal cases and 119 additional cases collected from the literature the difference between dextroversion and mirror-image dextrocardia is outlined. It is concluded that dextroversion is a part of an exceedingly primitive arrest in development that frequently includes other thoracic and abdominal organs as well as intracardiac structures. The defect is altogether different in...

Dextroversion and Noncompaction

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140028 Dear Editor, With interest we read the article by Gonçalves et al1 about a patient with dextrocardia and left-ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT)1. We have the following comments and concerns. Dextrocardia in association with LVHT has been repeatedly reported2. The exact pathomechanism of LVHT has not been discovered. Though the failing compaction proce...

Heart-shaped clones

Heart-shaped clones he intricate shape of the heart is formed by oriented cell growth patterns, according to Meilhac et al. on page 97. The heart is formed during embryo-genesis from a simple tube-like structure. As it grows, the tube morphs into the complicated but familiar shape of our four-chambered heart. How one set of cells in the tube expands to acquire the shape of a ventricle while oth...