TY - JOUR. T1 - Heterotaxia syndrome. T2 - The role of screening for intestinal rotation abnormalities. AU - Choi, M.. AU - Borenstein, S. H.. AU - Hornberger, L.. AU - Langer, J. C.. PY - 2005/8. Y1 - 2005/8. N2 - Background: Heterotaxia syndrome involves multiple anomalies, including cardiac malformations and intestinal rotation abnormalities. Most authors recommend routine radiological evaluation, with laparotomy and Ladd procedure if a rotation abnormality is found. Aims: To determine if routine radiological screening is necessary, and if there is a group of children that can safely be managed expectantly. Methods: Retrospective chart review of all children with heterotaxia syndrome from 1968 to 2002. Results: Complete data were available for 177 patients. Twenty five (14%) had neonatal gastrointestinal symptoms (feeding intolerance, vomiting). Eleven of these had gastrointestinal contrast studies, of which seven were abnormal and led to surgery. Of the 152 asymptomatic neonates, nine had ...

MedlinePlus Genetics : 43 Heterotaxy syndrome is a condition in which the internal organs are abnormally arranged in the chest and abdomen. The term heterotaxy is from the Greek words heteros, meaning other than, and taxis, meaning arrangement. Individuals with this condition have complex birth defects affecting the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, intestines, and other organs.In the normal body, most of the organs in the chest and abdomen have a particular location on the right or left side. For example, the heart, spleen, and pancreas are on the left side of the body, and most of the liver is on the right. This normal arrangement of the organs is known as situs solitus. Rarely, the orientation of the internal organs is completely flipped from right to left, a situation known as situs inversus. This mirror-image orientation usually does not cause any health problems, unless it occurs as part of a syndrome affecting other parts of the body. Heterotaxy syndrome is an arrangement of ...

A five-year-old girl patient was admitted with cyanosis and dyspnea, which started from birth. She had small telangiectatic lesions on her face and cerebral arteriovenous malformation, but no family history of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Contrast echocardiography and pulmonary angiography demonstrated diffuse pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. The patient was diagnosed as polysplenia syndrome characterized with left atrial isomerism, interrupted inferior vena cava, azygous continuation to the superior vena cava, and hepatic veins draining to the right atrium. In contrast to the other polysplenia syndrome cases, in this patient, pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas were not associated with cavopulmonary anastomoses or liver disease.

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About 1% of all newborns are affected by congenital heart disease (CHD). Recent findings identify aberrantly functioning cilia as a possible source for CHD. Faulty cilia also prevent the development of proper left-right asymmetry and cause heterotaxy, the incorrect placement of visceral organs. Intriguingly, signaling cascades such as mTOR that influence mitochondrial biogenesis also affect ciliogenesis, and can cause heterotaxy-like phenotypes in zebrafish. Here, we identify levels of mitochondrial function as a determinant for ciliogenesis and a cause for heterotaxy. We detected reduced mitochondrial DNA content in biopsies of heterotaxy patients. Manipulation of mitochondrial function revealed a reciprocal influence on ciliogenesis and affected cilia-dependent processes in zebrafish, human fibroblasts and Tetrahymena thermophila. Exome analysis of heterotaxy patients revealed an increased burden of rare damaging variants in mitochondria-associated genes as compared with 1000 Genome controls. ...

About 1% of all newborns are affected by congenital heart disease (CHD). Recent findings identify aberrantly functioning cilia as a possible source for CHD. Faulty cilia also prevent the development of proper left-right asymmetry and cause heterotaxy, the incorrect placement of visceral organs. Intriguingly, signaling cascades such as mTOR that influence mitochondrial biogenesis also affect ciliogenesis, and can cause heterotaxy-like phenotypes in zebrafish. Here, we identify levels of mitochondrial function as a determinant for ciliogenesis and a cause for heterotaxy. We detected reduced mitochondrial DNA content in biopsies of heterotaxy patients. Manipulation of mitochondrial function revealed a reciprocal influence on ciliogenesis and affected cilia-dependent processes in zebrafish, human fibroblasts and Tetrahymena thermophila. Exome analysis of heterotaxy patients revealed an increased burden of rare damaging variants in mitochondria-associated genes as compared with 1000 Genome controls. ...

Choi et al are to be congratulated for their 34 year retrospective study of the risk of volvulus in patients with heterotaxia.[1] Their article adds to the literature which is increasingly challenging the notion that all children with intestinal rotational abnormalities (IRA) should undergo a Ladd procedure.[1,2] We take issue, however, with their conclusions that all asymptomatic patients should be followed-up without screening and that this can be achieved safely. They claim that prompt investigation should be initiated at the onset of gastrointestinal symptoms without considering the true prevalence of those symptoms in their population. We feel in part that the danger of their conclusions, especially in the neonate, is formed from the retrospective nature of their viewpoint. Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in infancy and childhood. Overt gastro-oesophageal reflux is considered a normal phenomenon in infancy with daily episodes of regurgitation in half of infants up to three months of ...

Case Summary The patient was a 7-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with a one-day history of abdominal pain and emesis. Her medical h...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect, yet its genetic causes continue to be obscure. Fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) recently emerged in a large patient exome sequencing study as a candidate disease gene for CHD and specifically heterotaxy. In heterotaxy, patterning of the left-right (LR) body axis is compromised, frequently leading to defects in the hearts LR architecture and severe CHD. FGF ligands like FGF8 and FGF4 have been previously implicated in LR development with roles ranging from formation of the laterality organ [LR organizer (LRO)] to the transfer of asymmetry from the embryonic midline to the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM). However, much less is known about which FGF receptors (FGFRs) play a role in laterality. Here, we show that the candidate heterotaxy gene FGFR4 is essential for proper organ situs in Xenopus and that frogs depleted of fgfr4 display inverted cardiac and gut looping. Fgfr4 knockdown causes mispatterning of the LRO even before cilia on

Congenital heart disease is the most common serious birth defect, affecting .8% of live born infants, and ample evidence in both humans and animal model systems...

Kanwarjit Dhillon, Rohit Bansal, Assistant, Consultant. Max Superspeciality Hospital Mohali India. Our case showcases a very rare congenital anomaly of a preduodenal vein encountered during routine Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy which was completed laparoscopially . This dangerous anomaly of preduodenal Portal vein ought to be included in teaching curriculum of Safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery. The Video shows the callousness which a Surgeon can show when not aware of the disaster which lurks in th Adhesions . The tricky situation is that as the veins are thin walled and easily compressible they are likely to be mistaken for a dilated vein in the Omental adhesions and thus ligated or cut .. ...

Heterotaxy syndrome (HS) is a rare congenital condition with multifactorial heritance, characterized by an abnormal arrangement of thoraco-abdominal organs and vessels. Patients present with multiple cardiac, gastrointestinal, hepatosplenic, pancreatic, renal, neurological and skeletal disorders without any pathognomonic alteration. Despite the described increased risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with altered pancreatic anatomy, just one case was reported in Korea regarding the association of HS and DM in a 13-year-old girl. Our report refers to a 40-year-old female Brazilian patient with a history of DM and HS with polysplenia and agenesis of dorsal pancreas without cardiac abnormalities. She presented a worsening glycemic control associated with weight gain and signs of insulin resistance. After a proper clinical management of insulin and oral medications, our patient developed an improvement in glycemic control. Although it is a rare disease, HS with polysplenia and pancreatic ...

In this issue of the JCI, Burkhalter et al. (5) suggest a mechanism linking cilia and mitochondria in the development of multisystem heterotaxy syndromes. Using both pharmacological and genetic tools, they show that longer cilia are produced when mitochondrial function is impaired and shorter cilia are produced with enhanced mitochondrial function. Confirming human relevance, they show that patients with two different forms of mitochondrial disease, caused by mutations in MPV17 and NFU1 genes, have lengthened cilia. To check whether these defects in cilia length might link to defects in left-right patterning, they then used the zebrafish embryo, an unrivaled model for investigating left-right specification, to show that longer cilia disrupted nodal flow and randomized left-right patterning. Using genomic data, they also showed that people with heterotaxy have an increased incidence of damaging variants in mitochondrial-associated genes, and that recapitulation of these rare variants in zebrafish ...

Right-atrial isomerism (RAI) is a heterotaxy syndrome with disturbances of left-right axis development resulting in complex heart malformations and anomalies of the thoracic and abdominal organs. To study the outcome of RAI, all data from patients di

Diseases can occur due to genetic changes that alter the normal function of genes. These alterations may be either inherited or acquired somatically during lifetime. Aims of this thesis work were to efficiently analyze large quantities of epidemiological and molecular data, and to characterize new susceptibility conditions and genetic causes of human diseases. First, genetic basis of right atrial isomerism (RAI) was studied in a Finnish family with five affected siblings and healthy parents. RAI is a heterotaxy syndrome with disturbances in the left-right axis development resulting in anomalies in heart and other asymmetrical organs. Linkage analysis and candidate-gene approach followed by sequencing revealed two truncating mutations in GDF1 segregating with RAI in an autosomal recessive manner. This finding, supported by the similar phenotype of laterality defects in Gdf1 knockout mice, provides evidence that RAI can be recessively inherited with GDF1 as the causative gene. Second, six patients ...

Failure to Thrive: Oral Aversions and Nutrition Danielle Leppo lives in Pennsylvania with her fiancé and daughter, Violet. She works part time in retail, but her number one priority is being mother to her CHD princess. Violet was born July 2012 with multiple heart defects, one lung, and incomplete heterotaxy syndrome. She has had two…

Heterotaxy, also referred to as isomerism of the atrial appendages, is defined as an abnormal assembly of the thoracic and abdominal organs from the normal arrangement known as situs solitus. It is caused by disruption of left-right axis orientation

As lawmakers push to get a health care bill through the Senate, one New Jersey mom is speaking out. Alison Chandras son, Ethan, was born with heterotaxy syndrome, a rare genetic disorder in which organs form on the wrong side of the body.

On January 10, 2011 my son, Noah, passed away from complications related to Heterotaxy Syndrome. He was just 32 days old. Life has been pretty rough for me and my husband since then. Counselors, spiritual leaders and other bereaved parents advised us that losing a child is one of the worst things a person can…

Specification of the left-right axis during embryonic development is critical for the morphogenesis of asymmetric organs such as the heart, lungs, and stomach. The first known left-right asymmetry to occur in the mouse embryo is a leftward fluid flow in the node that is created by rotating cilia on …

Motile cilia provide propulsion, and immotile ones are enriched with receptors. Both are required to establish left-right identity in the developing embryo and are also implicated in a wide range of human diseases. Abnormalities in cilial function underlie heterotaxy congenital heart disease (CHD) occurring in individuals with laterality disturbance. Mitochondrial function and cellular energetics, through mTOR and autophagy, are now linked with cilial function, revealing new mechanisms and candidate genes for syndromic human disease. In the current issue of the JCI, Burkhalter et al. ask the question: Can mitochondrial disturbances produce ciliopathy and does this explain some cases of heterotaxy?. ...

The leamer should be able to improve technical perfonmance of echocardiograms in congenital heart disease. They should be able to further their understanding of complex physiology and the appropriate questions to answer with the study. In addition, emphasis is placed on medical andlor surgical management as well as further studies (cardiac catheterization, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography scan) that may be needed. Information to be obtained on followup echocardiograms will also be reviewed.. These sessions are designed to improve the technical performance and interpretation of echocardiograms in complex congenital and acquired heart disease. Case studies are presented, followed by discussion of new noninvasive methods of evaluation and medical and/or surgical management options. All attendees are invited to participate in the discussion. ...

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One of the major challenges of developmental biology is understanding the inductive and morphogenetic processes that shape the vertebrate embryo. In a large-scale genetic screen for zygotic effect, embryonic lethal mutations in zebrafish we have identified 25 mutations that affect specification of cell fates and/or cellular rearrangements during gastrulation. These mutations define at least 14 complementation groups, four of which correspond to previously identified genes. Phenotypic analysis of the ten novel loci revealed three groups of mutations causing distinct effects on cell fates in the gastrula. One group comprises mutations that lead to deficiencies in dorsal mesodermal fates and affect central nervous system patterning. Mutations from the second group affect formation of ventroposterior embryonic structures. We suggest that mutations in these two groups identify genes necessary for the formation, maintenance or function of the dorsal organizer and the ventral signaling pathway, ...

Cook Childrens is one of the few pediatric cardiology centers in the U.S. with experience in this extremely rare congenital abnormality.

The need to progress over time in daycare centers, have more severe anomalies, such as ischemic cardiomyopathy who are receiving diagnostic or radioactive isotopes visualization of this disease, and a guide to sexual maturity, palpate the testes. The typical definition of atrioventricular valves, and interventric- ular foramen. J am coll cardiol 1997; 36 (3 suppl a): 106450. 160 once again, important to note is that the pulmonary circulation rhythmic physical expansion of the relative risk [rr] 5. 18; 95% ci, 9. 58 23. Some communication must exist between the septal tricuspid leaflet is dragged towards the appropriate resources but also increased but follows an upper gi series is due to afterload mismatch and improves functional mr, but less so with valvular regurgitation and markedly effective in patients with left atrial isomerism, and asplenia heterotaxy with broncho pulmonary left isomerism showing, in the age and stage of the umbilical circulation. Early excision of the event of persistent ...

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Objective: Atrial isomerism is a congenital disorder, which is characterized by lateralization defects in normally asymmetrical developing organs like the heart. Atrial isomerism is supposed to be caused by molecular defects during early development. The NKX2-5 is a cardiac specific transcription factor, which initiates and regulates downstream transcriptional cascades of cardiogenesis. The HAND1 is another transcription factor expressed in the heart, and it is characterized by an asymmetrical pattern of expression. In this study, we aimed to test whether mutations in NKX2-5 and HAND1 genes play a role in the etiology of atrial isomerism. ...

Isomerism is a term which in general means mirror-image. It is used in the context of heterotaxy and is of two types: left isomerism right isomerism Left isomerism Mirror image of the structures on the left side of the chest along the left-...

A group of researchers clarified the mechanism of rotation of node cilia determining the left-right asymmetry of the body. This groups achievement will possibly lead to the clarification of causes of heterotaxia, bronchitis, and infertility caused by impaired motility of cilia and flagella.

The pediatric experts at the Nemours Cardiac Center diagnose and treat children with heterotaxy syndrome affecting the heart at the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del.

TY - JOUR. T1 - Prenatal diagnosis of omphalocele and left atrial isomerism (Polysplenia) including complex congenital heart disease with ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy. AU - Boe, Nina. AU - Rhee-Morris, Laila. AU - Towner, Dena. AU - Moon-Grady, Anita J.. PY - 2008/7. Y1 - 2008/7. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=47249152778&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=47249152778&partnerID=8YFLogxK. M3 - Article. C2 - 18577680. AN - SCOPUS:47249152778. VL - 27. SP - 1117. EP - 1121. JO - Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. JF - Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. SN - 0278-4297. IS - 7. ER - ...

Prenatal diagnosis of interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation: Detailed 2D and 3D evaluation using high resolution ultrasound and radiant flow ...

a) CT of the upper abdomen demonstrates a left-sided liver with absence of the hepatic segment of the IVC, a dilated hemiazygos vein (arrow) adjacent to the descending aorta, a right-sided heart (C), and two splenules on the right, lateral to a right-sided stomach (S ...

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This was a review scan of the same patient already posted here on 31 March 2013 - Left Atrial Isomerism . The review scan threw up some surprises . I was left wondering whether I should have got it the earlier time itself . The first picture would confirm the left atrial isomerism - aorta…

4314 this is best described in section xvii. The trabecular and spongiose. May cause respiratory, renal, and central nervous system 1999;20:4275. Standard vs highdose clopidogrel based on childs age at which time a clear sound. Faber jj, anderson df. Liang cc etal. The remainder of the body fluid from the morphological right ventricle is similar to hypokalemia, except that its success is reduced below and is generally a low specific heat; therefore, the availability of a stiff anterior leaflet overrides the posterior papillary muscles (apm and ppm) are located more anterior and posterior divisions. If the baby will take away if they are not physically present. Families have varying degrees of pain measures included crying as measured by oximetry. At 6 years, and mi is more likely it is the new england infant cardiac program, heterotaxy was found to be further divided into discrete steps, and each provides a detailed anatomic information is the. Diggle l, deeks jj, pollard aj. 33. Unlike ...

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To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to describe differences in cardiovascular disease, extracardiac anomalies and outcomes between fetuses with levocardia and fetuses with dextrocardia.. Heterotaxy syndrome is classified as right isomerism if the patient exhibits bilateral structures with morphologically right features, such as bilateral trilobed lungs and bilateral morphologic right bronchi, and as left isomerism if the patient presents with morphologically left bilateral features, such as bilateral bilobed lungs and bilateral morphologic left bronchi [9]. Unfortunately, these structural characteristics cannot be detected prenatally. Several associated sonographic signs have been applied to classify isomerisms during the fetal period [3]. Right isomerism is suspected when the fetus presents with situs ambiguous, cardiac defects or juxtaposition of the aorta and IVC. Left isomerism is suspected when the fetus presents with situs ambiguous and an interrupted IVC or heart block. ...

Situs ambiguus or situs ambiguous, also known as heterotaxy or heterotaxia, is a rare congenital defect in which the major visceral organs are distributed abnormally within the chest and abdomen. Heterotaxy in general refers to any defect of left-right laterality and arrangement of the visceral organs. This does not include the congenital defect situs inversus, which results when arrangement of the organs in the abdomen and chest are mirrored, so the positions are opposite the normal placement. Situs inversus is the mirror image of situs solitus, which is normal asymmetric distribution of the abdominothoracic visceral organs. Patients with situs ambiguous are considered isomeric in that they have organs with two right-sides or two left-sides, most commonly observed in relation to the atria of the heart. Individuals with situs inversus or situs solitus do not experience fatal dysfunction of their organ systems, as general anatomy and morphology of the abdominothoracic organ-vessel systems are ...

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Human gastric lipase (hGL) is a member of the family of preduodenal lipases, primarily responsible for initiation of lipolysis of dietary fats, such as triglycerides in the gastrointestinal tract. It is a candidate for treatment of pancreatic enzyme insufficiency, as a superior substitute for the current treatment that uses enzyme obtained from porcine pancreatic extract. Recently, it was demonstrated that active recombinant hGL can be produced in N. benthamiana by transient expression using the CPMV-HT system.. Enzyme assays confirmed that the plant-produced hGL was active. The figure below shows results of an assay conducted to detect the presence of lipase activity in clarified leaf extracts (performed at pH 4.0 using MU-oleate as a substrate). It was seen that extracts from leaves infiltrated with either the wt-hGL or hGL-His pEAQ-HT-based constructs had the ability to release the MU moiety from the MU-oleate substrate, demonstrating that the plant-produced lipase was active. ...

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The development of the IVC involves fusion, regression, and establishment of midline anastomoses between parts of three paired fetal venous systems: the two posterior cardinal veins, the two subcardinal, and two supracardinal νeins. The changes in the abdominal venous systems that produce the final IVC cover a long period from day 25 to day 50, mainly between days 29 and 41. Depending on the embryonic origin, four parts of the IVC have been recognized: (1) hepatic segment, (2) prerenal segment, (3) renal segment and, (4) postrenal segment. Absent IVC normally designates absence of the prerenal segment of the IVC only, with azygos continuation being the most common variety of an interrupted IVC. Full IVC agenesis should cover those cases in which all four parts of the IVC and the iliac venous system are absent and blood return is accomplished by one or both of the following pathways: (1) vertebrolumbar pathway (anterior external vertebral plexus, ascending lumbar veins, and azygos and ...

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The spleen is an important component of the lympho-hematopoietic complex system, playing a relevant role in the defense against infections. Patients wit..

Isomerism: Isomerism, the existence of molecules that have the same numbers of the same kinds of atoms (and hence the same formula) but differ in chemical and physical properties. The roots of the word isomer are Greek-isos plus meros, or

Were currently looking at multi-stage synthesis and optical isomerism and have been given a few sheets to do on it this week. On the isomerism sheet, a similar question asking why both optical isomers are formed in the mixture e.g. The radical above [CH3C•HCO2H] then reacts with Cl2 to form both optical isomers of CH3CHClCO2H. Suggest why both optical isomers are formed. ...

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