Dextrocardia
When faced with a complicated congenital heart defect, confidence in the skill and expertise of your child’s surgeon is of paramount importance. When our son, Nathan, was diagnosed with Scimitar Syndrome, a rare condition characterized by dextrocardia, pulmonary hypoplasia, and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, we soon learned that our local surgeons had no personal [...]
In dextrocardia, the heart is abnormally positioned in the right chest instead of forming in the left. This is frequently detected during prenatal ultrasound and may or may not indicate a heart problem. Dextrocardia Situs Inversus (mirror image) is extremely rare and usually involves no related medical problems. If the viseral organs are mirrored as [...]
