Incomplete Situs Inversus Presenting as a Case of Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction

Incomplete Situs Inversus

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by a mirror-image transposition of both the abdominal and the thoracic organs.

Laterality is achieved established early in development, and any failure in that process might lead to a wide variety of positional derangements which may be partial or complete. Situs solitus describes the normal anatomy, situs inversus is the complete reversal, and situs ambiguous is used for any other abnormality of left-right development and shift.

Complete situs inversus is a very rare anomaly is characterized with the total inversion of all abdominal and thoracic organs. During the normal embryonic development, laterality (left-right-sidedness) is controlled by a group of signal molecules and genes. Any disturbance in the establishment of normal anatomical left-right asymmetry during this period results in left-right axis disorder which may express as complete situs inversus, incomplete situs inversus or situs
ambiguous.

AIM: To present a case of situs inversus ambiguous which presented as neonatal intestinal obstruction.

METHODOLOGY: The index case would be reported here as a presented from admission to mortality.

KEY WORDS: Incomplete, situs inversus, presenting, a case, neonatal, intestinal, obstruction.