Situs inversus and pregnancy: about a case and literature review

Abstract

Objectives: The authors report a case of dextrocardia associated with pregnancy.

Results: The anomaly had been discovered 5 years earlier during a preoperative checkup for a pathology other than cardiac. There was no associated cardiac pathology. The pregnancy was brought to term, the labor took place under epidural anesthesia, with a natural delivery of a living child of normal weight. The anomaly could be classified in the postpartum period by performing a computed tomography without injection of iodine products: it was a situs inversus totalis

Conclusion: Patients with situs inversus can lead normal lives. Situs inversus does not influence the course of the pregnancy and vice versa.