Dextrocardia
"Dextrocardia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A congenital defect in which the heart is located on the right side of the THORAX instead of on the left side (levocardia, the normal position). When dextrocardia is accompanied with inverted HEART ATRIA, a right-sided STOMACH, and a left-sided LIVER, the combination is called dextrocardia with SITUS INVERSUS. Dextrocardia may adversely affect other thoracic organs.
| Descriptor ID |
D003914
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.240.400.280 C14.280.400.280 C16.131.240.400.280 C16.131.810.250
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dextrocardia" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Said SM, Marey G, Joy B, Griselli M. Off-Pump "Clamp and Sew" Extracardiac Fontan With Inverted Bifurcated Graft for Dextrocardia With Heterotaxy Syndrome. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 09; 11(5):636-640.
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Rajab TK, Kim T, Keller S, Mallidi H. Management of a young patient with dextrocardia, atrial septal defect, and Eisenmenger syndrome with venous-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and heart-lung transplantation. J Card Surg. 2019 Oct; 34(10):1114-1116.