1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 69-year-old male, chronic smoker, presented with dyspnoea on exertion of 6 months duration. His clinical examination was unremarkable and his chest x-ray ( fi gure 1 ) showed cardiac silhouette to be predominantly on the right side of thoracic cavity, mimicking dextrocardia. As it is an apicolardotic posteroanterior view with rotation to right, the cardiac silhouette appear...

To our knowledge, isolated dextrocardia in association with congenital complete atrioventricular heart block has not been previously reported. We report such a case, elaborate on the possible pathogenesis, and present our experience with management.

The case here described was found in the course of a mass radiographic survey. Case History.-The patient was a well-grown man aged 35 years. He was free from symptoms. He had no significant past medical history. He had always lived a normal life and had been moderately athletic in his school days. On clinical examination it was found that cardiac pulsation was palpable in the right fourth inter...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140028 Dear Editor, With interest we read the article by Gonçalves et al1 about a patient with dextrocardia and left-ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction (LVHT)1. We have the following comments and concerns. Dextrocardia in association with LVHT has been repeatedly reported2. The exact pathomechanism of LVHT has not been discovered. Though the failing compaction proce...

INTRODUCTION Situs inversus with dextrocardia is the complete inversion of position of the thoracic and abdominal viscera. It may be isolated or associated with malformations, especially cardiac and/or alimentary. It may be discovered in infancy because of associated anomalies but often remains asymptomatic and discovered incidentally in adult life. Only a small number of cases have been report...

Dextrocardia is a rare condition that may be congenital (situs inversus) or acquired (pseudodextrocardia). Since individuals with this ailment have normal cardiac physiology and function, they may live normal lives. Similar to the general population, however, they might be susceptible to ischemic heart disease and present to a cardiothoracic surgical department for coronary artery bypass surger...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an acknowledged treatment for advanced heart failure in acquired dilated cardiomyopathy, resistant to pharmacotherapy. Although there are no therapeutic standards regarding heart failure originating from congenital heart defects with systemic right ventricle, a number of CRT implantations by transvenous approach in congenitally corrected transposition ...

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...

A baffle puncture is a challenging procedure but can be safely done using direct visualization of the region of interest. To our knowledge, however, it has never been performed in a patient with dextrocardia. We present a 62-year-old male with dextrocardia, right isomerism, congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, persistent left-sided superior and inferior caval veins, atria...

abstract sirenomelia is a rare anomaly of caudal region of the body presented with fusion of lower limbs in which genito-urinary, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and neural tube anomalies are found in most cases. we introduce a case of severe oligohydramnios, which had characteristic aspects of sirenomelia at the time of delivery and review the pertinent articles. all in all it is our aim to p...