Comments on: Man’s internal organs all back-to-front

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:12:03 +0000

Precisely the same thing happened to my aunt when she abused a swivel chair during work time!

By: Michael McG

Michael McG — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:11:34 +0000

2 livers?
All those years waster not winning drinking competition down at the pub!

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:54:30 +0000

It took them 64 years to find that out?

I will not go to a doctor in India!!! When they listen to your lungs and hear your heart beat that should be a good give away that something is very weird.

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:44:58 +0000

Agree…certainly not the only one. my father has the same condition. No extra organs but totally mirror image. I find it curious that there is no obvious family link. None of his older realtives have the same, and myself and my brother are “normal” and I believe our kids to be “normal”

By: originalmaja

originalmaja — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:16:46 +0000

“situs inversus”, yes or no?

well…. reminder: it’s the telegraph. it just sums up what it had found out reading other paper’s articles… google those. go, go.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:23:21 +0000

Yes, it’s not that rare. I’m a sonographer and had a patient 2 years ago with complete situs inversus. My patient only had one liver, but it was on the wrong side of his body. Everything (spleen, heart, great vessels) was flipped over the y-axis, as it were, laid over the midline of his body. As long as everything still connects up ok, you’re fine.

By: roz

roz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:17:05 +0000

did they check to make sure he wasnt a time lord?

By: Wen Prior

Wen Prior — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:59:13 +0000

Actually, there are hundreds of us with this condition, he’s by no means the only one, not even close.

It’s rare, but it’s not that rare! I have Situs Ambiguous which is even rarer, where my organs aren’t even in mirror image, they’re all over the place, and even I am not the only one. I’ve also got loads of spleens (polysplenia) and a few other things that go with it like shortened pancreas, bi-lobed lungs etc.

It’s rare, yes, but no, he’s not the only one and there are forms that are even more unusual.

By: Steffen

Steffen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:07:30 +0000

As I know, “situs inversus” is rare, but there are some more than only one confirmed case.

One example: The NBA basketball player Randy Foye, who is very much alive:

http://wcco.com/sports/Minnesota.Timberwolves.Randy.2.371610.html

Situs inversus seems to occur in roughly 1:10000 cases, caused by a recessive gene.

By: Nopke

Nopke — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:46:55 +0000

That indeed must be tricky .. discovering this while on the surgeon’s table … No routine business in that team for sure from that moment on!