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Dextrocardia

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Dextrocardia

  • Pathophysiology
  1. Congenital reversal of viscera
  2. Right sided heart
  • Symptoms
  1. None
  • Signs
  1. Apical impulse right sided
  2. Right border of heart in right midclavicular line
  3. Left border behind Sternum
  1. Inverted P Wave
  2. Inverted T Wave
  3. QRS Complex is negative in Lead I
  4. Lead II and III are reversed from normal appearance
    1. Lead II resembles a normal Lead III
    2. Lead III resembles a normal Lead II
  1. Cardiac shadow reversed