People with the right heart

People still live healthy with many internal organs turning upside down and living with the right heart is not very difficult.

People with hearts put the wrong place

In September 1998, Le Thi Co, a native of Nhi Tan hamlet (Tan Thoi Nhi commune, Hoc Mon, HCMC) fell ill. He was taken to Thong Nhat Hospital for treatment. In that year, he was 118 years old, the oldest man in our country still alive, and also one of the world's oldest people.

He has lived for more than a century healthily, not going to any medical examination and treatment agency. This was the first time he went to the hospital and through the visit, the doctors suddenly discovered that the organs were completely reversed. The heart and stomach should be on the left, then the right side, the spleen is on the right, and the liver on the right is left.

Thus, Co lived more than a healthy century, working and living normally, unaware of the phenomenon of reversing the position of these internal organs. Because he is the oldest person in the country, so the strange discovery is especially concerned by people.

This is a rare case, but it is not strange because it has been known for a long time, has studied and studied carefully and is considered to be physiologically normal people .

In the past centuries, when medicine was still underdeveloped, only the heart on the right side of the chest was considered strange, it belonged to a ' mysterious world ' that people could not understand.

This phenomenon was discovered in 1606 in a study of Fabius, but during the 17th century, only three cases were recorded, including the Queen of France Marie de Médicis (1573-1642). and around these characters, people have built legendary covers. Physicians call this phenomenon ' dextrocardia' , meaning ' the heart is on the right '.

Since the 19th century, thanks to the increasingly sophisticated medical equipment, people can detect hearts lying in the wrong place easily and realize that those with hearts on the right side of the chest are not uncommon. .

The heart on the right is due to the formation of the fetus, the organ rotates clockwise, the case of the heart on the right is caused by the stop at 180 degrees or 270 degrees (usually 360 degrees). Literature says this is an innate phenomenon not a genetic phenomenon. According to statistics in the United States, every 10,000 people have a heart on the right. In Sri Lanka, this rate is about 2 / 10,000 people.

Currently in Singapore , a small country in Southeast Asia, about 0.1% of the population lives with the heart on the right side of the chest. Most of these people are healthy. They just happened to find the unusual position of the heart multiplied by a physical examination or certain chest X-ray.

The body's' reversal of 'Situs inversus ' phenomenon has caused many scientists to suffer headaches. Scientists have long been interested in studying this phenomenon and found a correlation between the heart, liver and stomach.

So far, there have been three different types of positions arranged:

1. The first is the heart and stomach on the left, the liver on the right is like most normal people today.
2. The second type is the heart, liver and stomach, which are arranged in a reverse position as if they were seen in a mirror, meaning that the heart and stomach on the right still have the liver on the left. The position correlation of these 3 organs is still completely normal, so the bearer of them is also considered to be physiologically normal. Those whose hearts are on the right still live healthy and old, are of this type.
3. The third type is the heart, liver and stomach that are not located in the right places. These are cases that require treatment and must be treated early to avoid serious disorders that may occur in the body. For these cases, surgery must be done to arrange their position in the first or second style, which means that the heart can be left or right but in accordance with the position of the stomach and liver.