Aortic atresia with visceral situs inversus with mirror-image dextrocardia.
A newborn infant with situs inversus totalis (visceral situs inversus with mirror-image dextrocardia) with aortic atresia is presented. No reports of this anatomical variant have previously been reported in the literature. A brief discussion of the various types of congenital heart defects and their incidence in association with situs inversus totalis is presented.
Raines
K H
KH
Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
Armstrong
B E
BE
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities; D002932:Cineangiography; D003914:Dextrocardia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000002:abnormalities; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012857:Situs Inversus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014781:Viscera / Q000002:abnormalities*