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My uncle has a condition where all his organs are flipped left to right too, I think it's a slightly different condition though.
by fallingfrog 8y ago
My uncle has a condition where all his organs are flipped left to right too, I think it's a slightly different condition though.
- mikecsh 8y agoThis condition is called situs inversus. There’s another similar one called dextrocardia where only the heart is on the wrong side (literal meaning is “right sided heart”).
- riahi 8y agoThere’s multiple variants of heterotaxy syndromes (left and right variants) as well as many on a wide spectrum. We see a couple a cases a year pass through the radiology department. The working understanding is that these are ultimately ciliary dysfunctions in utero which cause aberrant gradients for body patterning.
- bluedino 8y agoMy cousin has it, my mom always blamed it on her parents doing drugs.