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Little Boy Needs 3 Organs

SOMERDALE, N.J., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Riley O'Brien has fought for life since before he was born. During his Mother's 22 week pregnancy checkup the doctor determined there was a problem. The...

High prevalence of respiratory ciliary dysfunction in congenital heart disease patients with heterotaxy.

Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and heterotaxy show high postsurgical morbidity/mortality, with some developing respiratory complications. Although this finding is often attributed to the...

An Unusual Form of Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return Via a Right-Sided Vertical Vein in a Heterotaxy Syndrome Case.

Heterotaxy syndromes comprise a great variety of possible cardiac defects. Anomalies of the pulmonary venous system are well recognized in heterotaxy syndromes but constitute a frequently underdiagnos...

Thoracic Situs As an Indicator of Atrial Appendage Morphology: A Postmortem Study of 306 Specimens With Situs Solitus in 250 and Heterotaxy in 56 Cases.

Symmetry of bronchi, lung lobation, and atrial appendages is frequently found in patients with heterotaxy syndromes. To evaluate the reliability of thoracic situs as an indicator of atrial appendage m...

Heterotaxy Syndrome: Defining Contemporary Disease Trends.

The purpose of this study was to define a population of visceral heterotaxy and to investigate the incidence of bacterial sepsis in the current era of universal pediatric pneumococcal immunization. Pe...

Mutations in ZIC3 and ACVR2B are a common cause of heterotaxy and associated cardiovascular anomalies.

BACKGROUND: Heterotaxy syndrome is caused by left-right asymmetry disturbances and is associated with abnormal lateralisation of the abdominal and thoracic organs. The heart is frequently involved and...