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Double valve replacement in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis

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A 38-year-old male was diagnosed to have dextrocardia, situs inversus totalis and rheumatic heart disease involving aortic and mitral valves. After further evaluation, he was taken up for double valve replacement. Surgery posed a challenge for us because of the abnormal positioning of the heart and great vessels. He made an uneventful recovery apart from transient heart block. This case is being presented for its rarity with the fact that there has been only one other reported case of double valve replacement in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis.

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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Madras Medical College, Chennai, India

    Mariappan Baliah, Prabakar Veeraiyan & Ajay Narasimhan

  2. Department of Cardiology, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Madras Medical College, Chennai, India

    Manohar Ganesan

  3. S 2 Gopalakrishna Flats, Old no 14, New no 21 Lake View Road, West Mambalam, Chennai, 600033, India

    Ajay Narasimhan

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Baliah, M., Veeraiyan, P., Narasimhan, A. et al. Double valve replacement in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 31, 237–239 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-015-0373-6

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