To cite: Lakshman VB, Revannasiddaiah S, Ganganna R. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013008611 DESCRIPTION Situs inversus totalis is a rare occurrence wherein the organs of an individual are ‘mirrored’ in position, with the right-sided organs swapping positions with the left. The thorax features the heart placed in the right hemithorax, with the l...

BACKGROUND Fifty percent of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) have situs inversus. Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) might be one of the characteristic features of the lung in PCD. METHODS We reported a case of PCD without situs inversus, yet complicated with DPB, and did literature review. RESULTS A 34-year-old nonsmoking Chinese woman with 6-year primary infertility suffered fro...

OBJECTIVE Correlate the anatomic features of atrioventricular septal defect with echocardiographic images. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty specimen hearts were studied by sequential segmental analysis. Echocardiograms were performed on 34 patients. Specimen hearts with findings equivalent to those of echocardiographic images were selected in order to establish an anatomo-echocardiographic correla...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital anomaly where asymmetrical positioning of internal organs may affect the surgical and radiological management of certain conditions. Vulvovaginal hematoma is a life-threatening complication of vaginal delivery whose primary treatment usually consists of incision and drainage of the hematoma and ligation of the responsible vessels, followed by wound pa...

Laterality defects in humans, situs inversus and heterotaxy, are rare disorders, with an incidence of 1:8000 to 1:10 000 in the general population, and a multifactorial etiology. It has been proved that 1.44/10 000 of all cardiac problems are associated with malformations of left-right asymmetry and heterotaxy accounts for 3% of all congenital heart defects. It is considered that defects of sit...

Broadly speaking, we may say that analysis situs, or topology, deals with the properties of geometrical figures that remain invariant when the figures are subjected to arbitrary continuous transformations. There are, however, several distinct kinds of analysis situs, because there are several distinct ways of interpreting the physical notion of continuity in mathematical language. For example, ...

Dextrocardia associated with atrial situs solitus is commonly referred to as dextroversion. Dextroversion is a result of early interruption of normal embryological development and, therefore, rarely occurs without other associated cardiac and noncardiac anomalies. While percutaneous coronary intervention has been described in many cases of dextrocardia with situs inversus, it has not been previ...

Situs inversus totalis with dextrocardia is a rare congenital anomaly. This is a reverse isomeric form of the thoracic and abdominal viscera or the complete mirror image. Left atrial approach for mitral valve surgery is required particularity in the treatment. Herein, we present a case of situs inversus, dextrocardia, and rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Standing in the left side of the patient,...