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Do Some People Really Have Their Heart At The Right Side Of The Chest? by daylae(m): 12:35pm On Oct 18, 2011 |
How true is this,cus av not seen anyone like that. |
Re: Do Some People Really Have Their Heart At The Right Side Of The Chest? by highland(m): 2:17pm On Oct 18, 2011 |
strange. |
Re: Do Some People Really Have Their Heart At The Right Side Of The Chest? by daylae(m): 4:11pm On Oct 18, 2011 |
^thought so too. But until i searched. Situs inversus (also called situs transversus or oppositus) is a congenital condition in which the major visceral organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. The normal arrangement is known as situs solitus. In other rare cases, in a condition known as situs ambiguus or heterotaxy, situs cannot be determined. The term situs inversus is a short form of theLatin phrase "situs inversus viscerum", meaning "inverted position of the internal organs".Dextrocardia (the heart being located on the right side of thethorax) was first seen and drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1452–1519, and then recognised byMarco Aurelio Severino in 1643. However, situs inversus was first described more than a century later byMatthew Baillie. The prevalence of situs inversus varies among different populations but is less than 1 in 10,000 people.[1] Effect on anatomy The condition affects all major structures within thethorax and abdomen. Generally, the organs are simply transposed through the sagittal plane. The heart is located on the right side of the thorax, the stomach and spleen on the right side of the abdomen and the liver and gall bladder on the left side. The left lung is trilobed and the right lung bilobed, andblood vessels, nerves, lymphatics and the intestines are also transposed. If the heart is swapped to the right side of the thorax, it is known assitus inversus with dextrocardia or situs inversus totalis. If the heart remains in the normal left side of the thorax, a much rarer condition (1 in 22,000 of the general population), it is known assitus inversus with levocardia or situs inversus incompletus. Situs inversus with levocardia, or dextrocardia without situs inversus, present much higher rates of congenital defects than situs inversus with dextrocardia. |
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