What to consider when evaluating a dextrocardia by transtoracic echocardiography?

Authors

  • José Manuel Rivero Echocardiography Service. La Plata Cardiovascular Diagnostic Institute. Buenos Aires. Argentina
  • Ceres Moreno Echocardiography Service. Alberta Children's Hospital. Alberta. Canada
  • Luis Martínez Echocardiography Service. Dr. Gilberto Rodríguez Ochoa Latin American Children's Cardiology Hospital. Caracas. Venezuela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37615/retic.v3n3a3

Keywords:

dextrocardia, visceral situs, congenital heart disease.

Abstract

Dextrocardia is a cardiac malposition in which the orientation of the cardiac apex is downwards and to the right side of the thorax, with different spatial dispositions of the chambers according to visceral situs and associated with other congenital cardiac defects. Therefore for the evaluation of these patients we need to place and perform non-conventional maneuvers with the transducer during our daily practice, in order to obtain reproducible and interpretable echocardiographic planes which allow us to reach the best diagnostic approach.

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Published

2020-12-31

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Rivero JM, Moreno C, Martínez L. What to consider when evaluating a dextrocardia by transtoracic echocardiography?. Rev Ecocardiogr Pract Otras Tec Imag Card (RETIC) [Internet]. 2020 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];3(3):43-7. Available from: https://imagenretic.org/RevEcocarPract/article/view/305

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2020): Journal of Practical Echocardiography and Other Cardiac Imaging Techniques

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REVIEW ARTICLES

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