Notable persons with situs inversus
Notable individuals with documented cases of situs inversus include:
Randy Foye, an American basketball player for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. He has suffered no discernible complications, and the condition is not expected to jeopardize his career as a professional athlete.
Catherine O'Hara, the Canadian comedic actress has said in interviews that her organs are reversed and her heart is on the right side of her chest.
Donny Osmond, whose appendicitis was initially dismissed as a less serious condition because nobody realized he had situs inversus. It was discovered when he was taken to hospital when on tour with his family in England.
Enrique Iglesias, the Spanish singer told the press that he was born with situs inversus.
Fictional characters with situs inversus
In the Ian Fleming novel Dr. No, Julius No explains to James Bond that he once survived a murder attempt because his heart is located on his right side, which his would-be-killers did not know when they stabbed the spot on the left where the heart of a normal human being would be.
Souther, from the anime/manga Fist of the North Star, has situs inversus totalis, making him immune to standard pressure-points martial arts.
In the webcomic It's Walky!, anyone who goes through the Martian resurrection process ends up being completely reversed, with their organs mirrored within their bodies and their primary hand becoming the opposite of what it had been before. This process happens to several major characters throughout the comic's run.
In the WB series Jack & Jill, Simon Rex played a young man with situs inversus.
Fortune, from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Revolver Ocelot points this out when he shoots Fortune on the left side of her chest, then remembers and states that her heart was on the right side.
In Margaret Mahy's novel The Tricksters, the character Hadfield is said to be an exact mirror image of his otherwise identical twin Felix, including having his vital organs in mirror-image layout.
In the Lord Peter Wimsey short story The Image in the Mirror by Dorothy Sayers, a character with reversed organs has long been haunted by dreams of a doppelgänger and by fears that he himself might be only the reflection of someone else.
In the Max Brooks novel World War Z, a character describes operating on a patient who had dextrocardia with situs inversus, and transplants a heart from someone with the same condition. Unbeknownst to him, the transplant heart is infected with the virus Solanum, thus turning the patient into a zombie.
Fecccó Lovász, famous Hungarian electrical engineer.
Wondering why I have given you this info....obviously, I'm a dextrocardian with Situs Inversus.
Many a times, I have seen funny situation when the medical examiner wants to have ECG on me...
Comments and actions like...Don't Move, Breath heavily, Why?????? , horrified... etc
I was even disembarked from an US flight when I had minor pain on my chest due to indigestion..
hmm..Thanks God...you have not put me in a situation where people looks at me as an alien...:-) with the esternal parts are inverted.::))
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Haha nobody ever knows you have it unless you tell them, that's the thing. I have it too and have never met anyone else who has it (that I know of anyway) but it would be cool to meet someone who does though, you know? I have situs inversus totalis, as well as Kartaganer's syndrome. So I have a chronic cough that people always mistake for a cold, allergies, or a "smoker's cough" though I've never smoked a day in my life.
Haha nobody ever knows you have it unless you tell them, that's the thing. I have it too and have never met anyone else who has it (that I know of anyway) but it would be cool to meet someone who does though, you know? I have situs inversus totalis, as well as Kartaganer's syndrome. So I have a chronic cough that people always mistake for a cold, allergies, or a "smoker's cough" though I've never smoked a day in my life.
I Have Situs Inversus with Dextra Cardia. :-D
I have situs inversus imcompletus
Hi welcome to the family I'm situs inversus total is or complete and yes I have krataganer's syndrome in my case I suffer from afib of the heart and my heart is tilted I'm 55 and I have COPD second hand smoke ( we are very susceptible to getting it because of k syndrome its funny at 55 that doctors still get blown away when you tell them they look at you weird then when they examine you they want all other doctors in the office to confirm its like they heard of it but now there one in their room I still laugh at xray tech's and cardiac specs you tell them they're like OK really then results and they scramble because they can't or don't want to believe what they see. My family use yo call me the alien my uncle use to tease me and to say my dad was part of the Xmen. Yeah I've just about heard them all. I myself considered us a special breed of people for a reason so to others I say live long and prosper lol
I have dextrocardia situs inversus and i hate it when i have to tell someone non-medical practitioner and their first impressikn is i am ill. Several encounters with phycisians upon teling them i have the condition cant contain it. Its like a special subject from the laboratory got up from the operating table. One nurse even wanted to take my picture. Doctors always repeat it even if it was not my concern for a check up. Sometimes i dont want to go to the docs anymore because of it. Its still weird to get the attention when u dont like it.
I hear u when I was younger I would get Dr's that learn about it and want to bring all their students in now that I'm an adult WHEN THEY ASK I say NO!
I too have situs inversus totalis my heart sling with all other organs are mirrored.. Being born in the 80s in a small southern town doctors immediately thought the xray machine was messed up.. But little did they know it was me lol even doctors today are shocked to see my imaging when i first start seeing them cause often i don't even think to say anything. Im 32 and have never met anyone else with this condition.. Do far just alot of misdiagnosis because they automatically assume in normal lol
Hi my name is YSENA WATSON I'm 56 and I have it also even the Kartaganer's syndrome I live in California high desert. It's crazy even after all these years doctors still marvel about it they have heard about people like us but few have ever seen us and there are some famous people who are like us Catherine O'Hara Enrique Iglesias and Donny Osmond and Robert foye of the Minnesota timber wolves.
I went through that as well I have situs inversus yet since I was 14 been in and out of hospital for ovarian cysts and along with my stay came all the med interns just looking at me ohhh ahh situs inversus and yes now as an adult i just tell them to speed things up lol
I went through that as well I have situs inversus yet since I was 14 been in and out of hospital for ovarian cysts and along with my stay came all the med interns just looking at me ohhh ahh situs inversus and yes now as an adult i just tell them to speed things up lol
My daughter is 2 1/2 and has complete Situs inversus. I have a lot of questions if anyone could help me with some answers I would super grateful
My daughter is 2 1/2 and has complete Situs inversus. I have a lot of questions if anyone could help me with some answers I would super grateful
Hi my daughter also has situs inversus she is an amazing little girl but I don't really know everything
When I was 3 the doctor found out that I have situs inversus totalis. Now I am pregnant and the echo showed that the baby most likely has it too! KG
When I was 3 the doctor found out that I have situs inversus totalis. Now I am pregnant and the echo showed that the baby most likely has it too! KG
I was born in 1974 in a small maine town. When I was 4 they discovered I Situs Inversus Totalis with Dextracardia. I had 3 dimesized holes in my 4 yrold size heart, i had a heart catherization to patch them when I was 4. I've since had 2 kids both are perfect.
Hi,
I'm 34 and found out I had situs Inversus with Levocardia, which is apparently really rare, I have tried to find out as much info as I can but there really isn't much, apparently most people with the Levocardia don't live very long due to severe heart problems, I would love to speak with someone who also has this, Drs seem to dismiss many of my questions which I can only presume is because they don't know the answer!
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So surprised to stumble on this. I am pregnant and during an ultra sound found out my child has situs inversus...the only time I previously heard of it was on an episode of ER. Very little info available...
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