Dextrocardia with situs inversus is a rare clinical entity with an estimated incidence ranges from 1 in 8000 to 1 in10,000. Percutaneous intervention in patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus is clinically challenging due to abnormal orientation of coronary geometry and the intervention requires appropriate use of guiding catheters, engagement technique, appropriate radiological angles as...

RATIONALE Abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints for patients in emergency department. It's difficult to make an accurate diagnosis by emergency physician in time, especially in patients with situs inversus totalis. PATIENT CONCERNS A patient with acute exacerbation of chronic left upper quadrant abdominal pain.DIAGNOSES:: cholangiolithiasis with situs inversus totalis. INTERVE...

Recent reports4 have stressed the importance of doing bnonchograms and sinus studies on people with situs inversus because of the greater incidence of bnonchiectasis and chronic sinusitis in these people. The incidence of bronchiectasis at Massachusetts General Hospital in 232, 111 admissions was 0.3 per cent as compared to 21.7 per cent in the 23 cases of situs inversus.’ The Mayo Clinic and t...

INTRODUCTION Mucinous adenocarcinoma is a rare neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract and one of the three major histological subtypes of the primary appendiceal adenocarcinoma. The most common type of presentation is that of acute appendicitis and the diagnosis is usually occurred after appendectomy. The accurate preoperative diagnosis and management of the above condition represents a real ch...

Situs inversus totalis is an inherited condition characterized by a mirror-image transposition of thoracic and abdominal organs. It often coexists with other anatomical variations. Transposition of the organs imposes special demands on the diagnostic and surgical skills of the surgeon. We report a case of a 34-year-old female patient presented with left upper quadrant pain, signs of acute abdom...

... The limbs on the right side are stronger. [The] cause may be ... [that] ... motion, and abilities of moving, are somewhat holpen from the liver, which lieth on the right side. (Sir Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum (1627).)Fifty per cent of people with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) (also known as immotile cilia syndrome or Siewert-Kartagener syndrome) have situs inversus, which is thought to...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a broadly used technique for gallbladder treatment. However, situs inversus, a rare anomaly, is reportedly difficult to treat by conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A 36-year-old woman with chronic cholecystitis and multiple gallstones was found to have dextrocardia on a chest X-ray. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated situs inversus, cholecystitis, an...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare condition where the organs in the body is placed in the opposite side. When such patient presents with the diseases of the intra abdominal organs the diagnosis is challenging and the operative procedure to be performed will be difficult. This may require the anticipation of variations in anatomy, ergonomic changes required during surgery and mastery over the ope...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare anomaly in which the abdominal and thoracic cavity structures are opposite their usual positions. A 41-yr-old woman, who had an ulcerating cancer on the rectum, was found as a case of situs inversus totalis. We present an overview of the operative technique for the first documented laparoscopic total mesorectal excision of a rectal cancer in the patient with sit...

KNOWLEDGE of the position of the abdominal organs is important in cardiac diagnosis. Thus a mirror-image dextrocardia is usually observed in a patient with complete situs inversus; this condition more frequently occurs in an otherwise normal individual than in one with a malformed heart. By contrast, when dextrocardia occurs without situs inversus, malformation of the heart is the rule. When th...