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ArticleCureus2024

Dextrocardia With Situs Inversus in a COVID-19 Patient.

Anastasia Rigatou, Konstantinos C Christodoulou, Xafnoula Zlatidou, Ioannis Nikolakakis

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anastasia RigatouComputed Tomography and MRI Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Konstantinos C ChristodoulouLaboratory of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, GRC.
Xafnoula ZlatidouComputed Tomography and MRI Department, Sismanogleio General Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Ioannis NikolakakisEmergency Medicine, Tzaneio Prefecture General Hospital of Piraeus, Athens, GRC.
Democritus University of Thrace · GRSismanoglio General Hospital · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With an estimated incidence of one in 10,000 to one in 50,000 patients, Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare innate anomaly, portraying a mirror image of the normal anatomy, as the cardiac position and abdominal viscera are completely inverted. Despite the fact that physicians and researchers have been dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic for three years, there is a lack of published data examining the potential effects of anatomic variations on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. This study aimed to contribute to this domain by presenting a rare case of a COVID-19 infection coexisting with SIT as one of the very few cases reporting the simultaneous presence of the two pathologies. We sought to present this case of COVID-19 in a quinquagenarian female, in whom SIT was an incidental radiological finding. The reversed anatomy did not seem to affect the clinical progression of the virus. However, due to the lack of scientific evidence, the potential long-term effects, if any, of COVID-19 on SIT cannot be predicted. The recognition of the mirror pattern will offer a personalized treatment plan, reducing the risk of severe complications and management mishaps.

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anatomic variationclinical examinationelectrocardiography (ecg)miror anatomysars-cov-2

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PMID38347982
PMCPMC10861161
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