A 20-year-old man was referred to us for further evaluation due to infective endocarditis. He had mirror-image dextrocardia with visceral situs inversus. He had a history of dyspnea on exertion (NYHA class II) of several years’ duration with no new onset symptoms. On physical examination, he had no peripheral stigmata of infective endocarditis. Laboratory examination showed a normal erythrocyte...

Situs inversus is an uncommon anomaly with rare incidence. Some cases of situs inversus totalis have been described with different types of associations. Here we report a case of situs inversus with carcinoma of the gastric cardia.

THE relation of situs inversus to twinning has attracted much attention from experimental embryologists. Thus, Spemann and Ruud (1922) produced situs inversus by division of the amphibian egg, the twin derived from the right half frequently showing situs inversus. Komai (1938) observed situs inversus in the salmon, particularly in one partner of conjoined twins and relatively frequently in the ...

INTRODUCTION Situs inversus is a rare autosomal recessive condition associated with complete transposition of abdominal+/- thoracic organs. Surgical diagnosis and surgical procedures in patients with situs inversus is tricky because of the mirror image anatomy of intra-abdominal organs. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 2152 and 1497 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecy...

Dextrocardia with situs inversus (situs inversus totalis) is rare congenital anomaly which can be asymptomatic and compatible with normal life. Incidence is 1 in 10000. But in cases of situs inversus with levocardia association of congenital heart disease is high. We are presenting a pair of twins, born out of nonconsangunious marriage, from a primigravida mother, with an uneventful antenatal p...

Situs inversus with dextrocardia is a rare congenital anomaly. Azoospermia and situs inversus may be encountered in ciliary dyskinesia syndromes. We report the case of a 30-year-old male who manifested situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia and azoospermia with maturation arrest at primary spermatogenesis who presented with liver abscess. The patient responded well to treatment with i.v. metronid...

Immotile-cilia syndrome is characterized by severe respiratory distress from early infancy, and also often by situs inversus. The first description of the disease was based on just four persons, but reasons were given to suggest that the disorder may not be exceedingly rare. The purpose of the present study was to estimate just how rare or how common it is and to evaluate its association with s...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital condition that occurs in one out of 4000–20000 people, characterized by complete transposition of the thoracic and abdominal viscera1-14. In contrast, situs solitus is a term that refers to the normal arrangement of body organs. Any disposition of organs between these two extremes is designated by situs ambiguous, situs transversus or situs inversus p...