A 52-year-old female patient was admitted to our department primarily complaining of“palpitations and shortness of breath for one month following physical activity.”Upon admission,the physical examination revealed t...
BACKGROUND Situs inversus totalis(SIT)may be an incidental finding in asymptomatic children.Patients may not understand the implications of this condition and the importance of relaying the diagnosis to their healthca...
Main pulmonary artery aneurysms are rare,mostly asymptomatic and discovered accidentally.The main pulmonary artery aneurysms may be idiopathic or secondary to underlying diseases such as pulmonary hypertension,Behcet...
Background: Situs inversus is a rare congenital disorder that causes a reversal in the anatomical arrangement of chest and abdominal organs, such that the organs are mirror images of the normal anatomy. It is generall...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No. 81701930
BACKGROUND Hemifacial microsomia(HFM)is a rare congenital malformation characterized by a combination of various anomalies,including the face,ears,eyes,and vertebrae.Prenatal diagnosis for HFM is possible,and quite ac...
Supported by Pudong New Area Science and Technology Development Fund Livelihood Scientific Research Project:Medical and Health,No.PKJ2020-Y106;Shanghai Pudong New District Medical Discipline Construction Project C Cardiovascular Internal Medicine Clinical Plateau Discipline,No.PWYgy2018-03;Shanghai Key Medical Specialty Construction Project,No.ZK2019B25;Scientific Research Project of Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission(Youth Project),No.20184Y0230.
BACKGROUND In mirror-image dextrocardia,the anterior-posterior position of the cardiac chambers and great vessels is maintained,but the left-right orientation of the abdominal organs is reversed.The abnormal anatomy o...
the Chinese Cardiovascular Association-V.G.(2017-CCA-VG-042).
Dextrocardia refers to a right-sided location of the heart within the thoracic cavity which is the primary manifestation of the abnormal lateralisation of the embryonic leftright axis.[1]As a rare cardiac malformation...
A 26-year-old patient with mirror-image dextrocardia and situs inversus experienced a transient ischemic attack.We suspected that a patent foramen ovale was the reason.A Cardi-O-Fix occluder was used to close the pate...
Dextrocardia is a rare anomaly where the heart is located on the right side of the chest instead of the normal left side. Ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) with such an inverted anatomy may be challenging for the...
Catheter ablation has been an established strategy for treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF).Pulmonaryvein isolation is the predominant approach of catheter ablation. This procedure is characterized as transs...