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Case report: dextrocardia with situs inversus; two cases presenting differently
1Department of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria.
The Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal
|April 15, 2003
Abstract:
Two patients presented to our centre with dextrocardia and complete situs inversus. The first a 35-year-old presented for the first time with respiratory symptoms but no cardiac symptoms and the second patient (14-year-old) presented with cardiac symptoms. Dextrocardia and situs inversus were confirmed by the chest radiograph, electrocardiograph, and abdominal ultrasound and computerised axial tomography in the two patients. Echocardiography established atrio-ventricular great arteries ventricular concordance and bicuspid aortic valve in the second patient that presented with cardiac symptoms.