Successful Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Stent Implantation in a Patient with Dextrocardia and Situs Inversus

ABSTRACT

Situs inversus with dextrocardia is a rare congenital anomaly of development involving a left-handed malrotation of visceral organs. The patients with dextrocardia usually have structurally normal heart but characterized by a mirror image position of the heart and abdominal aorta (descending aorta, left atrium, cardiac apex and stomach are all on the right side). Therefore the factors for complete coronary arteriography and revascularization are appropriate selection of catheters, originality and ingenuity of procedural technique based on the anatomic characteristics. We report a case of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and stent implantation to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and left circumflex artery (LCX) in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus.