A 36-year-old woman with a history of dextrocardia presented to the clinic for evaluation of several months of exertional dyspnea. She denied any cough, wheezing, fever, chills or rigors, as well as any orthopnea, leg edema or hemoptysis. Past medical history was significant for tachycardia, orthostatic hypotension, dextrocardia diagnosed 15 years ago, hyperlipidemia and chronic headaches. She ...

In selected patients, mitral valve repair using MitraClip® (Abbott, USA) is a relatively safe and well-tolerated treatment for significant mitral regurgitation [1–3]. We describe a 56-year-old female with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) and dextrocardia (Fig. 1a) with recurrent episodes of heart failure caused by a combination of systemic (right) ventricular f...

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,...

Recently, we have reported 20 cases of isolated 1lvocardia (Campbell and Deuchar, 1965), and here we are describing 33 cases of dextrocardia with malformations of the heart. These are nearly always present when the heart is on the right side without inversion of the abdominal viscera (isolated dextrocardia), as they are with isolated levocardia: generally they produce a right-to-left shunt and ...

Kartagener syndrome consists of congenital bronchiectasis, sinusitis, and total situs inversus in half of the patients. A patient diagnosed with Kartagener syndrome was referred to our department due to 3-vessel coronary disease. An off-pump coronary artery bypass operation was performed using both internal thoracic arteries and a saphenous vein graft. We performed a literature review for cases...

Goldenhar syndrome (GS), a rare condition, occurring due to defect in development of first and second branchial arches, is characterized by a combination of various anomalies involving face, eyes, ears, vertebrae, heart, and lungs. The etiology of GS is not fully known, although various hypotheses have been proposed along with its genetic association and many other causes. Facial asymmetry and ...