{"id":8940,"date":"2020-05-07T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpsite.staging.3d4medical.cloud\/uncategorized\/situs-inversus"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:40:40","slug":"situs-inversus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/blog\/situs-inversus","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious condition known as situs inversus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Picture this.&nbsp;An accident has&nbsp;occurred,&nbsp;and you are rushed to an&nbsp;emergency&nbsp;room where life sustaining surgery is required&nbsp;?. Then,&nbsp;upon opening your&nbsp;thoracic&nbsp;cavity,&nbsp;doctors&nbsp;stop and look&nbsp;puzzled. At first everything looks normal.&nbsp;Upon&nbsp;further examination it is&nbsp;discovered&nbsp;that your heart is reversed from&nbsp;its&nbsp;normal position&nbsp;??.&nbsp;This isolated case is known as dextrocardia. However, this&nbsp;condition&nbsp;can&nbsp;potentially&nbsp;apply to all organs in the body.&nbsp;When all&nbsp;visceral&nbsp;organs are&nbsp;reversed&nbsp;or mirrored from their normal positions,&nbsp;it&nbsp;is known as <strong>situs inversus<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rare&nbsp;congenital&nbsp;condition effects 1 in every 10,000&nbsp;births&nbsp;?.&nbsp;In isolated cases most people experience no related health issues. However, when associated with&nbsp;other conditions such as&nbsp;Kartagenar&nbsp;syndrome or primary ciliary&nbsp;dyskinesia,&nbsp;it may result in&nbsp;bronchitis and a reduction in male fertility.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some situs inversus patients do run the risk of having&nbsp;a&nbsp;congenital&nbsp;heart&nbsp;disease&nbsp;?.&nbsp;The most common&nbsp;being a transposition&nbsp;of the&nbsp;great&nbsp;arteries.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of our main&nbsp;arteries&nbsp;arising from the heart and&nbsp;crisscrossing&nbsp;over one&nbsp;another, they lie parallel.&nbsp;The main ventricles of the heart are also inverted so that our main blood vessels arise from the wrong chamber. This&nbsp;condition can be detected prenatally or within the first hours\/weeks of life from observing low oxygen levels in the blood.&nbsp;Corrective surgery&nbsp;shortly after birth is therefore the best treatment.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily&nbsp;those with situs inversus&nbsp;become&nbsp;aware of this condition at a young age and are required to wear&nbsp;MedicAlert&nbsp;bracelets&nbsp;which&nbsp;describe their condition.&nbsp;Catherine O\u2019Hara, Donny Osmond, and Enrique Iglesias are among the population who have this fascinating&nbsp;anatomical&nbsp;abnormality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explore the abdomen in the world&#8217;s most advanced 3D anatomy atlas, part of Complete Anatomy 2020. To get access to all gross and detailed models, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/completeanatomy.cn\/\"><strong>try it for FREE<\/strong><\/a><strong> today with a 3-day trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this. An accident has occurred, and you are rushed to an emergency room where life sustaining surgery is required ?. Then, upon opening your thoracic cavity, doctors stop and look puzzled.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/blog\/situs-inversus\">Leer art\u00edculo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9676,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}