Levocardia refers to the most common location of the human heart, on the left side of the thoracic cavity. [1] This is opposed to dextrocardia, in which the heart is in the right side.

Isolated levocardia may occur alone or with heart defects, heart rhythm abnormalities (sick sinus syndrome or atrioventricular node disorder), spleen defects (absent, underdeveloped, or extra spleen), and intestinal malrotation.

Levocardia describes a heart that is located in the left chest, levocardia with normally located abdominal viscera being normal. The abnormal possibilities include levocardia with visceroatrial situs inversus and levocardia with visceral heterotaxy (isolated levocardia).

Levocardia was defined as the location of the heart in the left hemithorax with the apex pointing to the left. All the other cases (124 cases) had situs solitus, levocardia and left cardiac axis between 60[degrees] and 90[degrees].

2023年5月25日 · levocardia: left-sided heart. dextrocardia: right-sided heart. mesocardia: midline heart. These terms purely describe the anatomic position of the left ventricular apex in the chest and their use does not indicate anything about the structure of the heart or the body situs.

Isolated levocardia (also known as situs inversus with levocardia) is a rare type of organs' situs inversus in which the heart is still in normal position but other abdominal viscera are transposed.

2018年2月24日 · Levocardia is defined as a normal cardiac position with the cardiac base-to-apex axis pointing from upper right to lower left. Dextrocardia refers to a heart with the base-to-apex axis pointing from the upper left to the lower right.

Levocardia (left-sided cardiac apex) with abdominal situs inversus is extremely rare. This is also known as isolated levocardia and is almost always associated with severe forms of congenital heart defects with poor prognosis. We report isolated levocardia in a …

Medical dictionary definitions for levocardia (congenital abnormality). Phonetic pronunciation, pictures, and related terms for Levocardia.

Levocardia is a medical condition where the heart is on the correct side of the body (the left), but the related structures are on the wrong side, either due to corrected transposition of the great vessels or to situs inversus.