Doctors confused over the woman whose heart lies on the right

Pravda ^ | 06-08-2005 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Vulcan mind meld would have revealed it right away.......

[Mikey_1962]

Dextro Cardia

[murdoog]

A condition like that could make things really confusing when you try to say the pledge of allegiance.

[My2Cents]

Like this guy?

[CSM]

It's whats on the inside that counts!

[phasma proeliator]

somebody needs to flip the x-ray over..

[SittinYonder]

somebody needs to flip the x-ray over..

LOL ... my thought, too.

[Seeking the truth]

Even before I had gotten to the end of the article, I was totally convinced there was a dyslexic alien involved!

[William Terrell]

It's a transitional form! At last! Since everyone is used to shooting at the heart on the left side, this new form will survive and dominate.

[Millee]

[Firefigher NC]

Isn't it already easy to tell when marriages aren't going to work?

[Flightdeck]

Maybe it's just her head that's turned around.

[gdani]

This is almost exactly what theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicted would happen if extra-dimensional beings were to capture then return a three-dimensional being to its original three dimensions.

Surely that's the answer.......

[Red Badger]

Uhhhhh......yeah, okay..........

[GovernmentShrinker]

It's called "situs inversus". This woman's condition is rare, but hardly unique.

http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Situs_inversus

[Jemian]

That is what I was thinking. In the case of identical twins it isn't unusual for one of them to be the reverse physically of the other. This woman may have had a twin who died in the womb without the mom ever realizing it.

[phasma proeliator]

Thanks for the link - a bit of education is always a good thing.

[SunkenCiv]

She's a mirror-image twin, whose twin died (and was reabsorbed by their mom) in the womb. IOW, her twin was internally arranged like most people, but died for whatever reason. As the mirror-image twin is the second possibility of monozygotic or "identical" twins (the first being two babies internally arranged like most people; the third being conjoined or "Siamese" twins), it isn't too common, and leaves no obvious evidence, such as the second amniotic sac seen with "Vanishing Twin" syndrome with fraternal twins.

[struwwelpeter]

The old Pravda is no more. Now it's giving the National Enquirer a run for the money:

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[struwwelpeter]

But their unique grasp of the 'truth' is the same as always.