Abstract
Dextrocardia is characterized by malposition of the heart and cardiac apex. The cardiac apex is located in the right side of thorax. Two types of dextrocardia can be distinguished: that with situs solitus and that with situs inversus. In dextrocardia with situs solitus the morphological left atrium is to the patient’s left; in situs inversus it is to the right.
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De Simone, R. (1994). Dextrocardia. In: Atlas of Transesophageal Color Doppler Echocardiography and Intraoperative Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78956-4_18
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