A 65-year-old man with situs inversus was admitted with jaundice, nausea, and upper abdominal pain. A computed tomography scan confirmed the diagnosis of situs inversus totalis and revealed a large stone in the main bile duct with distal stenosis. The patient and endoscopist were positioned in the usual manner during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). As a result of the anat...

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 ...

The majority of sufferers from bronchiectasis state that their symptoms began in childhood. There is good evidence for believing that the disease is usually of acquired origin, but in a few cases the presence of other developmental anomalies favours the view that there may also be a congenital factor. Sauerbruch (1934) considered bronchiectasis was due to mechanical crowding, particularly of th...

We report a case of advanced esophageal cancer successfully treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by esophagectomy in a 53-year-old man with situs inversus totalis. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in a clinical examination revealed a tumor in the lower third of the esophagus, and moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed from the biopsy findings. He was refe...

A 50 year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with complaints of abdominal pain. His chest and abdomen X-rays demonstrated some unexpected findings: dextrocardia (A) and right-sided stomach bubble (B). Further evaluation of the patient revealed a urinary tract infection as the cause of his symptoms. Situs inversus totalis is defined as the complete inversion of the thoracic and abdom...

Knowledge of the anatomical variants is essential for all invasive hepatobiliary procedures such as endoscopy, surgery and radiologic interventions. Modification in standard therapeutic interventions may be required based on variant anatomy. We report a technical modification in a 75-year-old female with known situs inversus (SI) totalis with carcinoma gallbladder. Present case highlights the f...

We report the case of a patient with situs inversus totalis, annuloaortic ectasia complicated by aortic insufficiency and mitral regurgitation which induced congestive heart failure. Both valvular lesions were repaired physiologically using aortic root sparing Yacoub 'remodeling' technique and mitral ring annuloplasty. Valve sparing techniques can be used effectively even in patients with compl...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) also known as immotile cilia syndrome is a genetic disorder characterised by chronic infections of the upper and lower respiratory tracts, male infertility and situs inversus totalis. Authors are presenting clinical details of a patient who was operated upon for recalcitrant rhinosinusitis. Investigations carried to find out the predisposing factors for such sin...

Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare anomaly in which there is a reversal of abdominal and thoracic organs. The condition may come to light when affected patients who uncommonly have congenital heart disease (CHD), manifest with one. A case of a 10 year old boy with SIT and tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) that was complicated with cerebral abscess is presented. The successful management of the cere...