Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Warning Signs Your Heart Isn't Working Properly
- Get to know the heart defects of dextrocardia
- Can mistakes in the position of the heart be dangerous?
- What are the causes of dekstrokardia?
- Organ complications associated with cardiac destrocardial abnormalities
- How do you handle destroxia?
Medical Video: 10 Warning Signs Your Heart Isn't Working Properly
The heart is a vital organ that supports human life by flowing blood and oxygen throughout the body. The location of the heart is in the middle of the inner part of the rib cage with the position of the lower end of the heart which tends to the left. The position of the heart that is tilted to the left is also due to adjustment with other important organs such as the lungs and liver. But there is a rare heart disorder that causes the location of the heart to shift to the right. This heart disorder is known as dekstrokardia.
Get to know the heart defects of dextrocardia
Dekstrokardia is a congenital heart disorder that causes half of the position of the heart to be on the right and the heart has an abnormal shape that is reversed, so that the lower end of the heart (apex) leads to the right. This condition is also often followed by changes in the location of other organs around the chest and abdomen. For example, the position of the heart that should be on the right but shifts to the left due to the heart which is also in the wrong position.
The condition of dextrocardia can be identified through abnormal electrocardiogram (EKG) graphics and improper organ placement based on X-ray examination, CT scan or MRI. It is also very rare to find - at least less than 1% of the world's population experiences dextrocardia.
Can mistakes in the position of the heart be dangerous?
There is a possibility for someone who has dextrocardia to live a normal life and stay healthy. But on the other hand, this heart disorder also carries its own health risks because some organs are in a place that is not supposed to.
In addition to positional abnormalities, some anatomical abnormalities of the heart may also occur if a person experiences dekstrokardia, including:
- Abnormalities of the aortic arteries to the right ventricles (chambers) that are supposed to go to the left ventricle
- Heart wall abnormalities that are missing or not perfectly formed
- The heart only has 1 ventricle, which should have two parts left and right
- Transposition of blood vessels - where the aortic blood vessels (which carry blood throughout the body) exchange positions with the pulmonary arteries (which carry blood to the lungs)
- Disability of the ventricular wall of the heart which is characterized by the presence of a hole.
What are the causes of dekstrokardia?
Decstrocardia is a disorder that has existed since birth and there are no known risk factors. But this condition is thought to be caused by an autosomal recessive gene in the formation and placement of human organs. The recessive genetic decline that gives rise to this condition will not appear unless a child inherits the same recessive gene from both parents.
Organ complications associated with cardiac destrocardial abnormalities
Condition invertus site what a person experiences with dextrocardia can be accompanied by organ malfunction. This causes a syndrome heterotaxy that is a collection of various disorders due to several important organs not working normally. This is indicated by several disorders including:
- Imperfect lymphatic glands resulting in a decrease in immunity and more susceptible to infection, especially at the age of the baby
- Indigestion due to an abnormal system of bile secretion and the structure and position of the intestine that is not in accordance with the digestive tract
- Impaired blood vessel function
- Pulmonary infections due to cilia or hair on the inside of the lungs cannot filter air and germs that enter the respiratory tract
- Disorders of lung function that cause difficulty breathing and channel oxygen throughout the body so that it can cause growth disorders
- Disorders of liver function characterized by symptoms of jaundice, conditions of discoloration of the skin and eyes turn yellow.
Besides destrocardia, there are similar conditions in which the position of the heart shifts to the right but is usually triggered by a disease that occurs in the lung, lung membrane (pleura) or diagframa and has normal ECG activity.
How do you handle destroxia?
The condition of dextrocardia does not require special treatment as long as the condition of the heart and other organs is healthy and can work normally. But knowing the position of the heart on the right is important for caregivers or parents of children with dekstrokardia because this information is useful for several health tests.
Health problems due to heart defects in dextrocardia need to be dealt with specifically, depending on which organs are problematic. Handling infections by preventing infection or taking antibiotics is needed by someone with imperfect pulmonary and lymphatic disorders. In addition, surgery is needed to improve the function of organs that have been disrupted due to inappropriate positions.
