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visceral heterotaxy 7

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A visceral heterotaxy that is characterized by complex congenital heart malformations and/or situs inversus and caused by defects in the normal left-right asymmetric positioning of internal organs and that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozyg

A visceral heterotaxy that is characterized by complex congenital heart malformations and/or situs inversus and caused by defects in the normal left-right asymmetric positioning of internal organs and that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the MMP21 gene on chromosome 10q26.

Signs and symptoms

  • Abnormal cardiac septum morphology
  • Heterotaxy
  • Situs inversus totalis
  • Hypoplasia of right ventricle
  • Interrupted aortic arch
  • Common atrium
  • Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
  • Interrupted inferior vena cava with azygous continuation
  • Atrioventricular canal defect
  • Polysplenia