• brian
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    10 months ago

    I’ve heard people talk about mirrored organs, is that something that would be immediately obvious? Like surely every person that has the condition would know about it.

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      10 months ago

      Every time I’ve seen it in a hospital TV show or whatever, it always seems to be a surprise…like they didn’t find out at birth but the first time they need some invasive procedures.

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      10 months ago

      I knew someone once who had this, she didn’t know until she got an x-ray as an adult. The doctor called in their colleagues to take a look at the scan because he’d never seen a real-life case before. She had her heart on the right side of her chest, was pretty interesting.

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        10 months ago

        I mean if I put my hand over my left then right side of my chest, it’s pretty clear which side my heart is on

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          10 months ago

          True, though isn’t the heart actually in the middle and it’s just asymmetric (with the big body-pumping side on the left)?

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      10 months ago

      Certainly not. It affects ~10% of the population, at least in certain countries. Not everyone has the privelege of a robust, accessible healthcare system.

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        10 months ago

        Well I guess the obvious one to me is feeling a heartbeat. It seems like that would come up even outside of the medical field (schools, “playing doctor”, heck doing the pledge of allegiance if you’re in the US)