A heart reversed triply: situs inversus totalis with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries in a middle-aged woman.

نویسندگان

  • Hung-Yu Chang
  • Wei-Hsian Yin
  • Ming-Chon Hsiung
  • Mason-Shing Young
چکیده

Figure 1. Chest radiography demonstrated a normal-sized heart with dextrocardia, right-sided gastric air bubble, aortic knob and descending aorta. The left hemidiaphragm was higher than the right one. This picture was compatible with situs inversus totalis. A 57-year-old woman was well in the past. She suffered mild dyspnea for 2 years. On physical examination, she was found to be normotensive without signs of heart failure. A grade 3/6 pansystolic murmur was heard over the right precordium. Chest radiography

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Echocardiography

دوره 26 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009