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A Heart Reversed Triply: Situs Inversus Totalis with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries in a Middle‐Aged Woman
Author(s) -
Chang HungYu,
Yin WeiHsian,
Hsiung MingChon,
Young MasonShing
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00934.x
Subject(s) - great arteries , content (measure theory) , situs inversus , computer science , video recording , medicine , heart disease , surgery , multimedia , cardiology , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Figure 1. Chest radiography demonstrated a normal-sized heart with dextrocardia, right-sided gastric air bubble, aortic knob and descending aorta. The left hemidiaphragm was higher than the right one. This picture was compatible with situs inversus totalis. A 57-year-old woman was well in the past. She suffered mild dyspnea for 2 years. On physical examination, she was found to be normotensive without signs of heart failure. A grade 3/6 pansystolic murmur was heard over the right precordium. Chest radiography