Introducción: la dextrocardia es una rara anomalía cardiaca congénita. Aunque incidencia de enfermedad coronaria similar a población en general, son pocos los casos documentados literatura. La disposición anatómica esta constituye un desafío hora planificar técnica quirúrgica y injertos utilizar. Presentación del caso: paciente 59 años con 2 vasos que fue sometido cirugía revascularización arte...

Situs inversus dextrocardia is a challenging situation for an interventional cardiologist. This report presents a rare case where multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention was performed in a single sitting using transradial approach. The challenges encountered in the procedure and clues to successful outcome are discussed.

Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus Associated with Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy Luiz Flávio Galvão Gonçalves1, Fernanda Maria Silveira Souto2, Fernanda Nascimento Faro2, Rodrigo de Castro Mendonça1, Joselina Luzia Menezes Oliveira1,2, Antônio Carlos Sobral Sousa1,2 Serviço de Ressonância Cardiovascular e Laboratório de Ecocardiografia, Hospital e Fundação São Lucas1, Aracaju; Departamento de Med...

BACKGROUND Dextrocardia situs inversus refers to the heart being a mirror image situated on the right side of the body. Distorted cardiac anatomy provides technical difficulties during fluoroscopy-guided transcatheter procedures. This is even more difficult in the case with percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC). Mitral valvuloplasty is a minimally invasive therapeutic procedure ...

A healthy, non-consanguineous couple had a son with complete situs inversus viscerum (including dextrocardia but without other cardiac defects), broad thumbs and big toes, postaxial polydactyly, average intelligence and length proportion of the extremities, and a normal face. The common cause of these defects may have a role in the origin of sidedness and symmetry in morphogenesis.

A female newborn probably with a variant form of galactosialidosis is described. The patient, in addition to the common findings seen in early infantile forms of classical galactosialidosis, displayed an unusual combination of congenital malformations including complex cyanotic congenital heart disease with dextrocardia and situs inversus.

Figure 1: CT images. (A) Preoperative three-dimensional CT image. Dextrocardia was observed preoperatively. The branches of the aortic arch were mirror-image reversed. (B) Postoperative three-dimensional CT image. Reconstructed aorta and branches were also mirror-image reversed. RV: right ventricle; Ao: aorta; BCA: brachiocephalic artery; Rt.SCA: right subclavian artery; Rt.CCA: right common ca...